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Court rejects office boy's appeal
The Jakarta High Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal filed by Hendra Saputra, an office boy who has been jailed for corruption allegedly committed by his former boss, a son of a recently retired Cabinet member under former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonoâs administration
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he Jakarta High Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal filed by Hendra Saputra, an office boy who has been jailed for corruption allegedly committed by his former boss, a son of a recently retired Cabinet member under former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration.
Hendra is the first suspect to be sentenced in a case connected with a Rp 23 billion procurement of jumbotrons for multimedia digital advertisement, in which Riefan Avrian, son of former Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Syariefuddin 'Syarief' Hasan, is also involved as a suspect.
'We expected the court to acquit and annul the Jakarta Corruption Court's verdict, which gives Hendra one year behind bars, but to no avail,' Hendra's lawyer Ahmad Taufik said on Wednesday in Jakarta, adding that his client was still considering whether to challenge the high court's verdict in the Supreme Court.
Riefan is currently standing trial for his role as the mastermind of the graft case.
Despite concluding in their verdict that Hendra was an unaware victim in the graft case, the Jakarta Corruption Court went ahead to sentence the office boy to one year in prison for carelessly taking part in his boss's scheme to rig the project at his father's office.
If Hendra accepts the appellative court verdict, he will serve only around two months incarceration as he has already served around 10 months at a detention center. Hendra is likely to serve an additional one month in jail for not being able to pay the Rp 50 million fine levied by the judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court.
