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Gayus, Nazaruddin granted Idul Fitri remissions
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Tax corruption convict Gayus Halomoan Tambunan is seen in a detention area. Gayus and fellow corruption convict Muhammad Nazaruddin are set to receive sentence remissions for Idul Fitri. (Tempo.co/Aditia Noviansyah)
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orruption convicts Gayus Halomoan Tambunan and Muhammad Nazaruddin are among 9,592 prison inmates who will receive sentence remissions for Idul Fitri, an official has said.
The West Java chapter of the Law and Human Rights Ministry’s head of correctional institution affairs, Agus Toyib, said all Muslim convicts had the right to receive Idul Fitri sentence reductions as long as they fulfilled rules and regulations stipulated in Government Regulation (PP) No. 99/2012 on remissions.
Agus said the further remission for Gayus, a former tax office official sentenced to 30 years in prison, was in line with regulations.
“Gayus has shown good behavior since he was first moved to Gunung Sindur Prison. He will get a two-month remission,” Agus said in Bandung on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Nazaruddin, a former Democratic Party treasurer, received a sentence remission of one month and 15 days.
In 2012, Nazaruddin was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison after he was found guilty in a graft case relating to the construction of the Southeast Asian Games athletes’ village in South Sumatra in 2011.
Nazaruddin was serving his sentence at Sukamiskin Penitentiary in Bandung when a panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court this year sentenced him in a different case to six years in prison and ordered him to pay Rp 1 billion ( US$76,336 ) in fines for gratification and money laundering when he served as a House of Representatives lawmaker.
One of the requirements for the submission of a sentence remission request is that a corruption convict must have paid fines or returned money as ordered in their sentence.
Agus said the 9,592 inmates set to receive remissions for Idul Fitri were currently serving time at 31 penitentiaries and detention facilities in the working area of the ministry’s West Java chapter. “As many as 177 inmates will be freed once they get their remissions,” he said. (ebf)
