Indonesian ex-minister gets sentence cut for ‘good work’ fueled by corruption

Mongabay
Mar 10, 2022, 10:30 am162 pts
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s former fisheries minister has had his jail sentence for corruption slashed by nearly half after an appeals court ruled that he had “done good work” while in office — specifically pointing to a policy that he abused to collect nearly $2 million in kickbacks. Edhy Prabowo was…

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