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View all search resultsN. Sumatra prosecutors receive restitution from illegal logging convict
Adelin Lis previosuly escaped twice, to Beijing and later Singapore, to avoid prosecution in the illegal logging case.
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Illegal logging convict Adelin Lis appears in a press conference at the Attorney General’s Office on June 19, 2021. State prosecutors repatriated the fugitive from Singapore after he fled Indonesia in 2008. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak )
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he North Sumatra Prosecutor’s Office announced on Wednesday that it had received a restitution payment of some Rp 105.65 billion (US$6.43 million) and more than $2.93 million from businessman Adelin Lis, who was convicted of illegal logging.
Adelin’s family paid the restitution on Tuesday on behalf of the 58-year-old convict, who had once fled to Singapore
Prosecutor Harli Siregar said the restitution paid by Adelin’s family had been deposited in the state’s coffers as non-tax revenue at the Attorney General’s Office.
The payment was part of the Supreme Court’s sentence on July 31, 2008, which sentenced Adelin to 10 years behind bars, a fine of Rp 1 billion or a further six-month prison term, and restitution of Rp 119.89 billion and $2.9 million.
Harli said that previously Adelin had surrendered, through his family, several plots of land and houses to be auctioned off to pay the restitution fee. However, the assets had not been sold, so Adelin handed over the money following the sentence.
“With the payment, the sentence in the Adelin Lis case has been completed according to the court’s ruling,” Harli told a press conference at his office on Wednesday.
“If the obligation to pay the restitution fee has been fulfilled, then all assets previously confiscated as security will be returned.”
