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Suharto’s son released from jail

31 octobre 2006, 00:00

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Former Indonesian president Suharto’s youngest son was conditionally released from jail yesterday, after serving a third of his original sentence for plotting the murder of a Supreme Court judge. Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra was sentenced to 15 years for paying a hitman to kill the judge and other offences, but that was reduced to 10 years on appeal and further sliced by a series of holiday “remissions”.

In all he served five years before yesterday’s release, which drew fire from critics as showing undue leniency to a powerful figure. “He is out. He will serve the remaining time outside the prison,”Gusti Tamarjaya, the justice ministry official handling penitentiaries in Jakarta, told reporters.

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