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Death sentence reduced to life for ex-police general Ferdy Sambo
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Ferdy Sambo, a former Indonesian police general accused in a murder case, attends his trial on February 13, 2023, at the South Jakarta District Court in Jakarta. (Reuters/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
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he Supreme Court has reduced the death sentence for disgraced former two-star police general Ferdy Sambo to life in prison on the grounds that he committed the premeditated murder of his own aide-de-camp Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat along with others, court spokesperson Sobandi said.
The ruling was read out on Tuesday in a 3-to-2 decision.
Two dissenting justices said, “the court should uphold the death penalty for Ferdy”, Sobandi told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
In the cassation case, prosecutors from the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) filed motions in opposition to appeals by Ferdy, who had lost the case at the Jakarta High Court.
Ferdy was found guilty by the South Jakarta District Court in February of the premeditated murder of Yosua, a police brigadier, and of tampering with evidence to orchestrate a cover-up, and was sentenced to death. The sentence was much harsher than the life in prison demanded by prosecutors for Ferdy as the principal perpetrator.
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Ferdy shot Yosua in the head after he ordered another aide-de-camp, Second Agent Richard Eliezer, to shoot the victim in Ferdy’s residence in Jakarta in July of last year, the lower court judges found. The former National Police internal affairs chief then attempted to make the death look like the result of a shootout between his two aides-de-camp. The judges found that Ferdy also enlisted the help of two accomplices: private chauffeur Kuat Ma’ruf and another aide-de-camp Ricky Rizal, an enlisted officer who ranked below Yosua.
