JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Graft convict Akil Mochtar, the disgraced former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, has filed a judicial review against the Anti-Money Laundering Law No. 8/2010 to the Constitutional Court.
Akil’s lawyer Adardam Achyar said the judicial review request has been filed to Constitutional Court on Monday (August 11). Akil is said to demand the Court to revoke eight articles in the Anti-Money Laundering Law alleged to have violated the sense of justice and the 1945 Constitution.
As reported earlier, panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court had dropped a life sentence to 53-year-old Akil Mochtar after proven guilty for committing corruption and money laundering acts related to post-election disputes in fifteen regencies.
According to panel of judges, the former Golkar politician was proven of taking bribes and gifts worth up to Rp57 billion in connection with post-election disputes in fifteen regencies handled by the Constitutional Court.
Akil had filed an appeal to the Jakarta High Court against the punishment. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)