Additional Criminal Payment of Compensation Money as an Effort to Return Assets Proceeds of Corruption Crimes

This study aims to find out and examine about additional criminal payment of replacement money as an effort to return assets resulting from corruption. This study uses a normative juridical approach that is analytical descriptive. The data used is secondary data obtained through library research, which is then analyzed qualitatively. Based on the research it was concluded that the additional crime of payment of replacement money as an effort to return assets resulting from criminal acts of corruption as an effort to recover state losses from Articles 17 and Article 18 of Act No. 31 of 1999 jo. Act No. 20 of 2001, has the goal of saving state wealth/finances that have been taken by perpetrators of corruption as well as to punish the perpetrators of corruption as severely as possible. Compensation money in the context of returning state financial losses in acts of corruption is an amount of money that must be paid by a defendant who is proven legally and convincingly according to law based on a court decision, because his act of committing a criminal act of corruption causes losses to state finances. In the criminal payment of replacement money, it must be linked to the existence of consequences or losses arising from the existence of criminal acts of corruption committed by the maker or perpetrator.¬Â