Jakarta High Court reads decision on Antasari appeal
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 06/17/2010 10:40 AM
Jakarta Hight Court will announce Thursday its verdict of the appeal lodged by former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Antasari Azhar.
Antasari was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Feb. 11 for masterminding the murder of businessman Nasruddin Zulkarnaen.
Nasruddin, a director of state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Putra Rajawali Banjaran, was killed in a drive-by shooting near Modernland golf course in Tangerang on March 14 last year.
The former KPK chief claimed the judges had failed to prove the motive behind the murder.
Prosecutors believed Antasari had an affair with Nasruddin’s third wife Rhani Juliani and panicked when Nasruddin threatened to expose the scandal to the media and ruin his reputation, the indictment said.
Three other defendants in the same case — media mogul Sigid Haryo Wibisono, former South Jakarta Police Chief Sr. Comr. Williardi Wizard and middleman Jerry Hermawan Lo — were also sentenced to 15, 12 and five years in prison, respectively.
