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Wiliardi Points to Precedent of Tommy, Muchdi
Heru Andriyanto | February 04, 2010

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In his final attempt to avoid the death sentence, middle-ranking policeman Wiliardi Wizar on Thursday accused prosecutors of double standards, comparing his case to that of Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra and Muchdi Purwoprandjono, who were recommended lenient sentence for premeditated murder charges.

Tommy was accused of ordering the murder of a Supreme Court judge but prosecutors only demanded 15 years in jail for the youngest son of the late former president Suharto, despite the fact that Tommy also may have “illegally possessed firearms and fled justice,” said Santrawan Paparang, a lawyer for Wiliardi.

A similar jail term was sought for former top intelligence official, retired army general Muchdi Purwoprandjono, who was the accused brains behind the murder of renowned rights activist Munir Said Thalib.

“Did prosecutors use their conscience as their guide? We let the panel of judges consider this,” said the lawyer. He went on saying that the prosecution had deployed a cherry-picking policy in handling cases.

“Prosecutors are only concerned about retributive justice, not the legal facts revealed throughout the hearings,” Santrawan said.

Prosecutors accuse Wiliardi of assisting former antigraft czar Antasari Azhar in recruiting hitmen to gun down businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, whose third wife allegedly had a sexual relationship with Antasari, who also is facing the death sentence in the same case.

Wiliardi, the former South Jakarta police chief, did a favor for Antasari in the hopes that the then chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission would help him get a promotion to a high-level job at National Police Headquarters, according to the prosecution.

Another Wiliardi lawyer, Junimart Girsang, said prosecutors had failed to present convincing evidence against his client but continued to demand the death sentence based on misleading testimony and evidence.

Junimart said the bullet fragments found at the murder scene had been proven to have come from a different type of gun than the one the prosecution had presented as evidence.

On April 30, 2009, Wiliardi retracted his earlier confession after realizing that he would still be prosecuted as a suspect but the prosecution used his first dossier, which had been made with the advice of his fellow officers, Junimart said.

Prosecutor Bambang Suharyadi declined to comment on the alleged discriminatory treatment for Tommy and Muchdi.

“I think their cases were different from the Wiliardi case,” he said briefly to journalists after the hearing.

The panel of judges, presided over by Artha Theresia, is slated to deliver their verdict next Thursday, when the fate of three codefendants — Antasari, businessman Sigid Haryo Wibisono and accused middleman Jerry Hermawan Lo — also will be decided in the trials that began on Oct. 8.