Contaminated Verdict
A corruption court found two top executives of Chevron Pacific Indonesia contractors guilty of fraud in its bioremediation project. A dissenting judge said the prosecution's charges contained inconsistencies, including the questionable testimony of a conflict of interest party.
May 14, 2013
The room on the first floor of the Jakarta Corruption Court was packed. Visitors who had been there since morning were trying to keep up the spirits of Ricksy Prematuri, who sat as the accused. At midnight on May 7, as the hearing was about to end, the room was hot. The air conditioning was set to high, but it was outmatched by the huge number of people who filled the area.
That night scores of Green Planet Indonesia employees were intermingled wi
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