Bali 9 judges offered bribe option for lighter sentence, say lawyers

The Bali 9 case just got a whole new element of excitement: now we have a corruption claim at play. 

The Australian pair’s Indonesian legal team is alleging that the six judges responsible for sentencing them with the death penalty offered to give them a lighter sentence in exchange for money, reports the Sydney Morning Herald

This claim alleging a breach of ethics surfaced in a letter sent by Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukmaran’s attorneys to the Indonesian judicial committee. 

According to the SMH, this news comes just after the Bali Nine’s former counsel Muhammad Rifan said last week that there had been some sort of “intervention” that could discredit him. He didn’t say much about it, but he did say he was ready to “take the heat” and offer up “never revealed evidence” to the pair’s current lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis. 

“It’s something that implicates us, it could discredit me. But for them I will take it. I told Myuran it’s okay,” Rifan said cryptically, as quoted by the SMH. “It’s one last thing I can do for them.”

Rifan reportedly went to Mecca for pilgrimage after making those comments. 

Lubis and his team have requested a stay of execution for Chan and Sukumaran by writing to Indonesian Attorney General HM Prasetyo. 

Photo: AFP



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