JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The prosecutor team from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) demanded 7.5 years prison sentence to Riefan Avrian, the son of Syarief Hasan in a case of the Rp23.4 billion videotron procurement project.

Syarief Hasan is Daily Executive Chairman of President SBY’s Democratic Party and former Minister of Cooperatives and Small-Medium Enterprises Syarief Hasan.

KPK’s prosecutor team read their demands in a Thursday’s (Dec. 4) trial held at the Jakarta Corruption Court.

KPK’s prosecutor team also demanded panel of judges to order Riefan to pay Rp5.392 billion in substitution to the State losses.

The prosecutor also demanded panel of judges to order Riefan to pay Rp200 million in fine or serving additional three months imprisonment.

As reported earlier, Riefan has been named as suspect since May 16. KPK charged Riefan with Article 2 Paragraph 1 or Article 3 juncto Article 18 of the Anti-Corruption Law. KPK estimated that State suffered Rp5.3 billion from the project.

Riefan has confessed to the previous trial that he is the one who controlling PT Imaji Media, the tender winner of the Rp23.4 billion videotron procurement project. Riefan also confessed that he is the owner and CEO of PT Rifuel, another company participated in the tender.

Furthermore, Riefan confessed that he ordered his office boy, Hendra Saputra, now a graft convict in the case, to sign the contract of the videotron procurement project between PT Imaji Media and the Cooperatives and Small-Medium Enterprises Ministry (KUKM), at that time led by his father.

Hendra Saputra, meanwhile, has been sentenced to one year in prison. He has been also ordered to pay Rp50 million in fine. (haryantosuharman@yosefardi.com)