Arrest of Wisnu Wardhana in the Corruption Case

We as citizens greatly appreciated the performance of the Surabaya training team which had arrested Wisnu Wardana who was a fugitive from the Corruption case, who was arrested on Wednesday 9 January 2019, previously Wisnu Wardana was on the run for three months. With the arrests that took place very dramatically so that the motorbike of the Surabaya team was hit by Wisnu Wasdana to smoky. After being arrested, the convict was then taken to the Surabaya District Prosecutor’s Office to undergo several document checks before being taken to Surabaya Class I Lapas in Porong Sidoarjo.

Wisnu Wardana is a convicted corruption case that has cost the country Rp 11.7 billion. Wisnu Wardana was proven to violate Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crime as amended in Law Number 20 Year 2001 concerning Amendment to Law Number 31 Year 1999 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the First Criminal Code.

The case of Wisnu Wardana Alone was sentenced to 3 years in prison and a fine of Rp 200 million subsidiary 2 months in prison at the Surabaya Corruption Court. Then Wisnu Wardhana appealed to the East Java High Court which reduced his sentence to 1 year in prison. After that, the East Java Attorney appealed to the Supreme Court which later in December 2018 raised the Wisnu Wardhana verdict to 6 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 200 million subsidiary six months in prison, and obliged Wisnu Wardhana to pay a compensation of Rp1,566,150,733 three years in prison.

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