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AKARTA: Lawyers for Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) convict Sherny Kojongian say they will file a case review to the Supreme Court on behalf of their client.

The lawyers said that their client’s trial was rife with irregularities. “We want the court to reopen the case because no witnesses for our client appeared at the trial,” member of Sherny’s defense team Afrian Bondjol said.

Sherny, who fled Indonesia in 2002, was found guilty of misusing BLBI funds along with her late husband Hendra Rahardja, a former chief commissioner of now-defunct Bank Harapan Santosa.

The Central Jakarta District Court sentenced her in absentia to 20 years in prison on March 18, 2002, along with her son and then BHS commissioner Eko Edi Putranto, who remains at large.

Sherny was arrested in San Francisco on Nov. 10, 2010, after being red-flagged by Interpol in 2006. She tried to fight her deportation, but the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected her appeal. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement handed her over to the Attorney General’s Office at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Wednesday morning.

Sherny is now detained at the Women and Children Penitentiary Center in Tangerang, Banten.