"I will return to my family and work with my employees again," she said in the yard of the Women`s Penitentiary in Tangerang, Banten.Tangerang, Banten (ANTARA News) - Noted businesswoman Arthalita Suryani alias Ayin regained her freedom on Friday after receiving a government decision on her conditional release.
"I will return to my family and work with my employees again," she said in the yard of the Women`s Penitentiary in Tangerang, Banten, in the company of her lawyer, OC Kaligis.
Ayin had been convicted of bribing public prosecutor Urip Gunawan with US$660,000 and sentenced to 4.5 years over the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) case of businessman Syamsul Nursyalim.
She was moved from Pondok Bambu Penitentiary in East Jakarta to Women`s Penitentiary in Tangerang after she was found living in a luxurious cell by the government`s task force charged with eradicating judicial mafia on January 10, 2010.
Ayin said she would return home to rejoin her family and start her business again after she had left it for 3.5 years.
Law and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar meanwhile said that her conditionl release was based upon the law.
"There was no intervention from anybody. It is purely based on the law," he said.
He said the law enforcement agency was fully aware of what it had done, adding that sanctions had also been given to the convict.
He said the judge who sentenced Ayin must have also counted on when Urip Tri Gunawan could be released.
"Judges generally know when the defendants they had convicted would be released after receiving remissions, assimilation or others," he said.
In view of that he denied he had cut Ayin`s imprisonment. "How could we do it. We could not hold someone longer than the time one should serve. We could be considered violating human righs if we did," he said.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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