Bandung –
Bale Bandung District Court jury decided that the defendant in the binary options investment hoax case was Doni M Taufik alias Doni Salmanan they do not have to compensate the victims.
Chief Justice Achmad Satibi said Doni Salmanan was not proven guilty as in the indictment of the two prosecutors for the money laundering offense (TPPU).
“Therefore release the defendant from the second indictment,” said the judge at Bale Bandung District Court, Bandung Regency, West Java, as reported by BetweenThursday (12/15/2022).
Previously, the public prosecutor (JPU) accused Doni Salmanan of article 3 and article 4 of the law number 8 of 2010 on money laundering.
The prosecutor had previously asked Doni Salmanan to pay compensation to the victims totaling 17 billion rupees. However, by the verdict, Doni was released from the obligation to pay compensation.
The judge found that the assets obtained by Doni Salmanan as an affiliate of the binary options investment application Quotex were not the result of a criminal act. Because, said the judge, regulation business or binary option still unclear.
For this reason, the judge decided that evidence of Doni Salmanan’s assets in the form of vehicles, money and house certificates be returned to the defendant Doni Salmanan.
Meanwhile, the intelligence chief at the Bandung District Attorney’s Office, Mumuh Ardiansyah, admitted the judge’s verdict was far from his party’s expectations.
During the trial, according to him, the prosecutor asked the judge to seize evidence number 33-131 to be returned proportionally to the victims.
On the Bale District Court’s website Bandung, the evidence according to this point is Doni Salmanan’s assets, namely luxury vehicles, title certificates, mobile phones, luxury clothes, cash totaling billions of rupees and other assets .
“Evidence number 33-131 which must be returned to the victim, before the decision is returned to the defendant,” Mumuh said.
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