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Your comments on the seizure by the Jakarta Corruption Court of Rp 74 billion in deposits, property and gold from Gayus H
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our comments on the seizure by the Jakarta Corruption Court of Rp 74 billion in deposits, property and gold from Gayus H. Tambunan on Thursday after adding years to his sentence:
Load on his mind: Graft convict Gayus H. Tambunan holds his forehead while listening to a verdict read by judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court on March 1. The court sentenced him to a six-year jail term for money laundering, adding to the previous sentences of 12 years for bribery and two years for passport forgery
All (repeat all) corruption loot and assets of corruption convicts should be seized. Otherwise, people won’t hesitate to join in on the corruption bandwagon.
They would simply transfer to another place where people around won’t recognize them and start
enjoying the loot for the rest of their lives.
A strong Indonesian leader might come up with an idea of investigating any suspicious wealth where anyone found guilty will face jail, so there is no point at all to be corrupt in any way if not even a single cent of it could be made use of.
There really must be a way to end our corruption culture. Otherwise, we will go down the drain together.
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
Jakarta
That’s how it should be: the Jakarta Corruption Court seizes assets of corruption convicts. Otherwise, it can be used to protect them by bribing and paying for lawyers that will do the utmost for their corrupt clients.
E Nurdin
Jakarta
To be fair, only assets obtained through the crimes for which a convict has been sentenced could be seized. Other assets, which are not proven to be connected to any crime, should be left untouched.
Soebagjo Soetadji
Jakarta
Let him have nothing now.
Eddy Arjuna Zainy
Take what he stole.
Taco de Vries
Whatever he has and what is owned by his family must be seized. There should be nothing left.
John Berkhmans
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