"This has absolutely nothing to do with the defendant. He's the one who's been accused of accepting money, and that's not true," Maqdir said in a statement received in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Nurhadi was accused of receiving gratuities worth Rp. 137.16 billion from parties involved in the courts, both at the first level, appeal, cassation, and judicial review, while Nurhadi was serving or had finished serving as Secretary of the Supreme Court.
The gratuity money is suspected to have been received by Nurhadi through an account in the name of Rezky Herbiyono, who is Nurhadi's son-in-law and a confidant, as well as accounts in the names of other people who were instructed by Nurhadi and Rezky, including Calvin Pratama, Soepriyo Waskita Adi, and Yoga Dwi Hartiar.
In addition, Maqdir felt that the actions charged against Nurhadi seemed as if they were an attempt to extend or increase his client's sentence after his client was released on parole.
Because, he said, if the charges of gratification or money laundering had already existed, they should have been prosecuted in the previous trial.
"However, it turns out that the KPK's policy is to separate bribery and gratification cases from corruption cases, and now they have created another case for gratification and money laundering," he said.
