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Lawyers sentenced in Supreme Court bribe
The Bandung Corruption Court in West Java on Wednesday sentenced two lawyers, who had represented a Semarang-based Intidana savings and loans cooperative member, to imprisonment for bribing Supreme Court justices in order to secure a favorable ruling for their client.
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The Supreme Court building in Central Jakarta. (Courtesy of the Supreme Court/-)
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he Bandung Corruption Court in West Java on Wednesday sentenced two lawyers, who had represented a Semarang-based Intidana savings and loans cooperative member, to imprisonment for bribing Supreme Court justices in order to secure a favorable ruling for their client.
Theodorus Yosep Parera was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and a fine amounting to Rp 750 million (US$50,184), while Eko Suparno was sentenced to five years jail and the same fine for bribing justices Gazalba Saleh and Sudrajad Dimiyati through several court staffers to secure a favorable ruling for Heryanto Tanaka.
Heryanto, a member of Intidana, was trying to regain the money he had invested after the cooperative declared bankruptcy for failing to fulfill its obligations to return the savings of its members, which amounted to nearly Rp 1 trillion (US$64 million).
Heryanto hired Yosep and Eko to handle the case and ordered them to bribe the justices and staffers in the country’s highest court.
“[The court] declared that the first defendant, Theodorus Yosep Parera, and the second defendant, Eko Suparno, guilty of committing the crime of corruption," Judge Hera Kartiningsih read out the court ruling on Wednesday.
The sentences were lighter than the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors had demanded: nine years and four months for Yosep, and six years and five months for Eko.
After virtually attending the trial at the KPK Merah Putih building, Yosep told reporters that he and Eko would not file appeals against the court ruling.
