A foreign national (WNA) from Portugal who was a witness in a cocaine drug case at a trial at the Tangerang District Court (PN), Banten.

Tangerang, Posinternasional.com

Lawyer OC Kaligis objected to the police arresting his client Fernando Miguel Gama De Sousa.

A foreign national (WNA) from Portugal who was a witness in a cocaine drug case at a trial at the Tangerang District Court (PN), Banten.

“Please consider the panel, because this is very full of conflicts of interest and we hope that the prosecutor will not present it at the next trial,” said OC Kaligis in Tangerang, Tuesday (23/7/2013) evening.

Kaligis said that Public Prosecutor (JPU) Raden Isjunianto presented that the police who arrested Fernando, namely AKP Jainuddin, Bribka Oktavianto and Wisnu Bagus, were members of Polda Metro Jaya.

In the trial with the agenda of examining witnesses led by judge M. Alfi Sahrin Usup, the prosecutor attempted to present five witnesses including Customs and Excise (BC) officers from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Tangerang City, Banten, Theo Dorus Arinal Zendrato and Riza Mahardika, officers from BC I Gusti Ngurah Rai (Bali).

However, the trial which started at 20.52 WIB ended at 23.19 WIB and only presented two witnesses from the Bali Customs and Excise office. During Theo Dorus’s examination.

Fernando rejected the witness’s statement because he thought he was lying even though the judge had sworn that he was holding the Christian holy book.

According to Fernando, through the translator who was sitting next to Indah Herdinawati, the witness did not see a purple backpack containing liquid cocaine packaged in a shampoo bottle.

“I’ve never seen the bag before, but why is it suddenly there,” said Fernando through a translator who was also assisted by lawyer Bernard Kaligis.

During the trial, apart from OC Kaligis, there were also lawyers Bernard Kaligis, Desyana and Ary Armon who accompanied Fernando.

During the witness examination, the prosecutor asked Riza that he saw a small scale in his suitcase while at a hotel in the Pecatu area.

Bali, which was shown to court visitors, but Bernard Kaligis and Fernando denied this.

Even such scales, said Bernard, are also used by housewives to calculate the weight of kitchen ingredients for cooking.

Likewise, the trial will continue Monday (29/7/2024) with the agenda still being to examine other witnesses, namely Jainuddin, Oktavianto and Vishnu Bagus.

*** (adi)

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