InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the corruption trial about palm oil business permit in Riau in 2004-2022 to the owner of PT Duta Palma Group, Surya Darmadi, the Judge sentenced him 15 years in Jail.

In the sentence, the Judge should also pay substitution fine for about Rp 39 billion for the country. If he could not afford it, Judge Fahzal said, he should substitute by five years in jail.

“Sentence that Surya Darmadi is proven guilty and delivered loss for the country about Rp 2,64 trillion,” Judge of Corruption Court, Fahzal Hendri sentenced in the trial, Thursday (23/2/2023), as quoted from Tempo.

What relieved him is that he was polite in the court and old enough. He also developed many facilities, such as, schools, and religious places.

“The defendant in his palm oil plantation business did corporate social responsibility, such as develop housing for the workers, schools, religious places, poli-clinics, that spent Rp 200 billion, delivered educational fund that reached Rp 28 billion,” Fahzal said.

The judges also took consideration that he hired about 21 thousand workers, paid taxes from five companies that reached Rp 215 billion. (T2)