24.02.2012
Former Citibank relationship manager Inong Malinda Dee says she does not understand why she has been charged with banking crime and money laundering.
She also questioned the prosecutors’ demand that judges jail her for 13 years and slap her with a Rp 10 billion ($1.1 million) fine that could be substituted with an additional seven months in jail.
She said the demand was incomparable to that recommended for Ridwan Sanjaya, an official from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, in a Rp 131 billion corruption case, who only received a recommendation of an eight-year jail sentence.
“I don’t understand. Could there be a regulation that recommends lower jail sentences for cases with bigger losses?” the embezzlement suspect asked.
Reading her defense document in the South Jakarta District Court on Thursday, Malinda said her legal issues derived from a business partnership. Her job was to attract as many customers as possible for Citibank and to help customers invest in shares, she said, but that partnership dragged her into a lawsuit.
“This was engineered to drag me and my family down. If customers felt they were being cheated by my service, they would not have stayed [with me] for so many years,” she said.
Despite that, Malinda said she would leave her fate in the hands of the judges and would accept whatever verdict was handed down.
“As a good citizen, I will accept it if judges think it’s a fair verdict,” she said.
She also questioned the prosecutors’ demand that judges jail her for 13 years and slap her with a Rp 10 billion ($1.1 million) fine that could be substituted with an additional seven months in jail.
She said the demand was incomparable to that recommended for Ridwan Sanjaya, an official from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, in a Rp 131 billion corruption case, who only received a recommendation of an eight-year jail sentence.
“I don’t understand. Could there be a regulation that recommends lower jail sentences for cases with bigger losses?” the embezzlement suspect asked.
Reading her defense document in the South Jakarta District Court on Thursday, Malinda said her legal issues derived from a business partnership. Her job was to attract as many customers as possible for Citibank and to help customers invest in shares, she said, but that partnership dragged her into a lawsuit.
“This was engineered to drag me and my family down. If customers felt they were being cheated by my service, they would not have stayed [with me] for so many years,” she said.
Despite that, Malinda said she would leave her fate in the hands of the judges and would accept whatever verdict was handed down.
“As a good citizen, I will accept it if judges think it’s a fair verdict,” she said.
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