Indonesia politician gets 14 years in jail for illegal permits, forest corruption

Mongabay
By Rhett ButlerMar 13, 2014, 9:56 am36 pts
The former governor of Indonesia’s Riau province has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay almost $90,000 in fines for illegally issuing logging permits in Riau and bribes linked to construction projects for sports facilities. On Wednesday, the anti-corruption court in Pekanbaru found former…

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