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he former director of PT Indosat Mega Media (IM2), Indar Atmanto, who was convicted for corruption, attended the first hearing of his case review on Monday at the Central Jakarta District Court.

In 2013, Indar was found guilty of enriching the company by misusing the 2.1 gigahertz telecommunication frequency and was sentenced to four years in prison. Indar was also told to pay Rp 200 million, or face an additional three months in prison.

He presented three new pieces of evidence in an effort to prove he had not broken the law or caused state losses.

'€œThe result of the [Communications and Information Ministry'€™s] monitoring agency shows there are no complaints or reports on [the company'€™s] intervention in the use of the 2.1 GHz Indosat frequency from 2006 until now,'€ Indar said in the hearing on Tuesday as quoted by detik.com.

He also cited several weaknesses in the 2013 verdict delivered by the Jakarta Corruption Court.

The case revolves around allegations filed in 2011 by Indonesian Telecommunication Consumer (KTI), an NGO. The chairman of KTI, Denny AK, is serving a prison sentence for extorting parent company Indosat last year.

The Attorney General'€™s Office (AGO) processed the case and launched its prosecution last year, arguing that IM2 had operated illegally by failing to secure frequency licenses based on a regulation issued by the Communications and Information Ministry that barred telecommunication firms from giving frequency allocations to other companies.