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...Tommy Suharto; after serving four years of a 10-year sentence for ordering the execution of a judge; in Jakarta. Tommy, a multimillionaire playboy who enjoyed a lavish lifestyle under the patronage of his powerful father, was convicted in 2002 of hiring two hit men to kill judge Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, who had ruled against him in a 2000 graft trial. His early release for good behavior, while the men who carried out the hit are still serving life terms, has prompted criticism that Indonesia's wealthy still benefit from special treatment under the country's justice system...
...reach of any court, a charmed status that continued even after Suharto Sr. lost power in 1998. Tommy was first arrested in 1999, sentenced to 18 months for graft the following year, and then escaped in November 2000. During his 12 months on the lam, Supreme Court Justice Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, who convicted Tommy on the graft charges, was assassinated. Police finally caught up with Tommy last November, and he was later charged with the murder...
...last week, the judges in Jakarta proved that reformasi was still alive by ruling that Tommy had masterminded Syafiuddin's killing, paid $11,000 to two gunmen and lent them one of his own pistols to use in the attack. (Those two were convicted of murder last February and are serving life sentences.) Tommy will likely appeal the ruling; some fear that his absence from the courtroom last week was a ploy by his lawyers to manufacture grounds for an appeal. And the sentence handed down is considerably softer than the life terms being served by his henchmen. "According...
INDONESIA Hit Men A judge handed down life sentences to two men allegedly hired by former President Suharto's son Tommy to assassinate a Supreme Court judge, Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, in July 2001. Tommy Suharto is separately accused of masterminding the murder and could receive the death penalty if convicted...
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