Thread: Schapelle Corby - Guilty or not?

Originally Posted by kingwilly

“It sends all the wrong messages on drugs for a convicted trafficker to be paid for her story,” Mr Hockey said on Twitter.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Necron99

They should with all haste make the law applicable to the purchaser as well as the seller.
If it's a crime, both sides are liable.

Good idea.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

It is unclear whether Corby will be able to profit from her criminal notoriety due to the Commonwealth Proceeds of Crime Act.

Her case is seen as complicated as the offense took place in Indonesia and she has not been convicted in Australia, although the act does state that it “can sometimes be used to confiscate the proceeds of crime that break foreign laws.”

Actually, it took place in Australia as well, she just has not been charged for it here.

Schapelle Corby warned over villa and TV interview "Could violate parole....."


BALI parole board boss Ketut Artha will today contact Schapelle Corby to advise her to move out of the luxury villa where she has been holed up since Monday — and warn her not to go ahead with her planned TV tell-all.
Mr Artha gave no indication of how much longer Corby would be able to stay at the 4 bedroom private villa in Sentosa Seminyak.
“There is actually no rule that has been violated by living at the villa. But as Corby has been in the public spotlight we suggest she does not stay at the luxury villa,” Mr Artha told News Corp Australia yesterday.

Veteran TV reporter Mike Willesee is ignoring the deputy justice minister’s warning to Corby that giving any interview could be in breach of her parole conditions.
“He raised the question of public concern and I’m confident Schapelle won’t do or say anything to cause public concern,” he said after emerging from Sentosa at about 9.30am local time.
“She’s abiding by all the conditions of her parole and I’m sure she will continue to do so.
“I think the main thing here is that Schapelle’s out of jail, she’s with her family and she wants a little bit of time to adjust to her new circumstances so everything is OK.”
Willesee said he has not yet started interviewing Corby, that he couldn’t “definitely” say whether it would still go ahead, and refused to confirm whether a deal had been signed.
“I can’t talk about that,” he said.
“I haven’t talked to Seven management. I haven’t talked with the Corbys since this statement (from the deputy justice minister) came out.
“I think at the moment she just wants some time to adjust to her new circumstances they’re very different to what she experienced for the last nine years and four months.”
He said that the risk of Corby being sent back to jail was “very hypothetical”.
“Don’t misinterpret what he said,” he said.
“Don’t put words in the minister’s mouth.
“Read his statement again. He talked about raising public concern.
“He doesn’t want to see public concern and I can’t see that public concern will be raised.”

The visit from Mr Artha comes after Indonesia’s Deputy Justice Minister warned Corby not to conduct the tell-all interview or face having her parole revoked.
Speaking in Bali late last night, Denny Indrayana said any interview could cause unease in the community which could be a breach of her parole.
He said he was echoing the thoughts of the Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin, with whom he has discussed the matter, and the minister agreed there should be no interview.
They are the strongest comments yet from the Indonesian Government about a growing domestic controversy over Corby’s parole and the fact that she could be ready to conduct a paid television interview while holed up in a luxury Seminyak villa.

Schapelle Corby warned over villa and TV interview as new pictures of convicted drug smuggler emerge | News.com.au

^ that is good news. She has broken her word to the Balinese officials and that is pissing them off big time. Starting by not going to where she was registered to go.

Originally Posted by aging one

^ that is good news. She has broken her word to the Balinese officials and that is pissing them off big time. Starting by not going to where she was registered to go.

Be funny as fuck and good job if she found herself back inside for breaching parole conditions.

Bang the stupid disrespectful cow back in and let her do her time.

Schapelle Corby will not sit interview for 'time being', her family say
Date
February 14, 2014 - 9:04PM


Corby banned from doing TV interview
Indonesian authorities have threatened to revoke Schapelle Corby's parole and send her back to Kerobokan prison if she goes ahead with a paid television interview.

Mercedes Corby has agreed that her sister Schapelle will not do a paid TV interview ‘‘for the time being’’, after the Indonesian justice department threatened to put her back in prison if she did.

But the family has refused to move from the luxurious Villa Sentosa Seminyak, where they have been since Schapelle’s release from prison on Monday, saying Corby is too nervous of the media pack waiting out the front.

Three members of the Bali Parole Board visited the Corby compound on Friday afternoon to advise the family not to do a planned interview with the Seven Network’s Mike Willesee because it might ‘‘cause restlessness in the community,’’ according to spokeswoman Ketut Sukiati.

Wayan Widyartha, Corby’s brother-in-law and the guarantor of her good behaviour, had told Ms Ketut that, ‘‘they would not do the interview for the time being’’, she said.

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The family did not know how long they planned to hold off.

Ms Ketut said Corby was in the room throughout the meeting, but apart from her initial greeting, only nodded occasionally and said, ‘‘Yes’’. Mercedes and Wayan did the talking.

One of Corby’s parole conditions is to speak respectfully to officials.

Ms Ketut said Corby had seemed ‘‘a lot more fit than on other visits’’. She attributed this to the afternoon timing; on the morning visit earlier this week, she had been groggy from her medication, Ms Ketut said.

Indonesian sensitivities have been insulted by Corby’s residence in a luxury villa, but Mr Wayan said the group would not yet leave it to go back to the address listed in her parole documents — his family compound in Kuta.

Mr Wayan reportedly said Corby wanted to go home as quickly as possible, but that the encampment of Australian (and sometimes Indonesian) journalists, waiting in a hotel cafe outside the compound, were ‘‘causing all the problems’’.

‘‘She wants to go home immediately but she’s stressed because of all the media attention. She feels like she’s chained,’’ Ms Ketut said. ‘‘She’s out free, even though with conditions, but she can’t go anywhere, and it’s stressing her more’’.

Bullshit

She would leave the Sentosa villas only when the media stop ‘‘hounding her’’.

‘‘We don’t know until when she will be there. But how can she go home if media keep chasing her? The other people at the home [Wayan’s home], and the neighbours, it will cause problems if she goes home,’’ Ms Ketut said.

Inside the villa complex is a Seven Network media team led by senior journalist Mike Willesee, who were invited by the Corby family and who are planning to pay for an exclusive interview with the drug smuggler.

A camera crew from that team joined the travelling media outside the complex for an hour or more on Friday to film comings and goings.

Ms Ketut said she knew nothing about that team.

Earlier on Friday, Willesee had been clinging defiantly to the idea that he could do his paid interview with Schapelle Corby.





Read more: Schapelle Corby will not sit interview for 'time being', her family say

Feds Raid Channel Seven Offices.

AFP raid will 'find nothing': Willesee


VETERAN Channel Seven journalist Mike Willesee says police will not find a thing about alleged payments to Schapelle Corby because no money has changed hands.
Seven broadcast the federal police raids on its Sydney offices after much speculation about a lucrative deal for Corby for her first interview since her release from a Bali jail.
The AFP said on Tuesday it had "executed a number of search warrants in Sydney in relation to an ongoing Proceeds of Crime Act matter".
New Idea magazine, which is owned by Seven West Media and located in its offices in Eveleigh, is rumoured to be part of any deal with Corby from Seven.
"The first thing I want to say about the Australian Federal Police raid is that it will finally nail the lie of the two million dollar payment that's been repeated and repeated in the Australian media," Mr Willesee told reporters.
Corby is on parole in Bali and there have been threats from Indonesian authorities she could be jailed again if she does a paid, tell-all interview.
"We've positioned ourselves to be the first in line if there is an interview. There is no deal," Willesee said.
"(The raid) will find nothing. They will find no payment because there is no payment.
Seven said the network was co-operating and AFP officers could be there for some time.
Leaving Seven's Martin Place offices in central Sydney, the normally outspoken Sunrise host David Koch had little to say to the waiting media before getting in a taxi.
He has been a vocal critic of Seven's plan to do a deal with Corby.
When asked if the AFP's raids on Seven offices vindicated his stance, Koch replied: "Not at all".

AFP raid will 'find nothing': Willesee | News.com.au

Schapelle Corby interview: George Brandis issues please explain to AFP over raids on Seven, says Tony Abbott

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the Attorney-General has issued a "polite please explain" to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) over its raids on Channel Seven's offices.

This week's raids were part of an investigation into whether convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been paid for an interview, which would put her in breach of proceeds of crime laws.

The AFP has defended the move, although it has apologised for what it has described as a clerical error in the documentation for the raid.

An AFP document submitted to secure the search warrant mistakenly included a paragraph from a separate and unrelated criminal matter.

Mr Abbott says there does seem to have been some issues with the police action.

"My understanding is that the Attorney-General has issued a polite please explain to the AFP," he said.

"But the actual matter itself was an operational policing matter entirely at arms length from Government and that's as it should be."

The AFP says Tuesday's raids on Seven, and the network's lawyers' premises, were "completely justified" and have yielded new material.

Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan says the network was very cooperative with AFP requests for information prior to Tuesday's raids.

"That material was handed over but we believed from that that there was more and that's why we went on to do the search warrants," he said.

"We firmly believed at the time that there was more information available and I am confident that when we did the search warrants we found that information that we were after - and indeed there may be more information, I don't know.

"We will see what is tied up in the documents and the material that is locked up in privilege."

The Seven Network says it will call for a judicial review of the AFP's existing search warrants on Monday in the Federal Court.

Seven signs agreement with sister to 'arrange' interview

The Seven Network's Bruce McWilliam says he is grateful the AFP apologised and says interview negotiations with the Corby family are continuing.

"The only signed agreement is an agreement with Mercedes Corby to use her best endeavours to arrange an interview," he said.

Channel Seven says Ms Corby was paid about $20,000 to help arrange an interview with her sister.

"Sure, there's an expectation that money might have to be paid," Mr McWilliam said.

"[The proceeds of crime law] doesn't hit at the payer, it hits at the recipient. So we actually don't care whether it goes to the Government or who it goes to.

"Yes, we would like the interview. If we get it for nothing we would be happy with that too."

Deputy Commissioner Phelan says he would be "happy" for Schapelle Corby to be interviewed, but the agency is working hard to ensure she does not financially benefit, either directly or indirectly, from an interview.

The agency says it has seized proceeds of crime worth more than $100 million this year.

Schapelle Corby interview: George Brandis issues please explain to AFP over raids on Seven, says Tony Abbott - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Schapelle Corby's sister Mercedes is suing the Australian Federal Police amid revelations that officers searched the office of her lawyer in Sydney on the same day as the AFP's botched raid on Seven West Media's headquarters.



Some Bogan in Bali....

Lawyers for Bali-based Ms Corby filed the paperwork in the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday.

It means the AFP now faces two legal challenges over last week's operation to uncover evidence of an interview deal Seven West was rumoured to have signed with Schapelle Corby over her Indonesian drug smuggling conviction.

This week Seven West launched its own action against the AFP over the unprecedented raid when more than 30 armed police spent 12 hours searching the company's headquarters and the offices of the Sunday Night program and Pacific Magazines.

Seven West, owner of The West Australian, said it was not connected with or aware of the basis of Mercedes Corby's action but it understood her solicitor was raided on the same day.

The company said the AFP had refused repeated requests to reveal the grounds on which it obtained its search warrants so it was forced to take legal action to find out why.

Both matters are listed before the same judge in the Federal Court today.

Ms Corby's decision to sue comes as Seven West chief Tim Worner ratcheted up criticism of the AFP raids.


More about drug smuggling bogans here........

Faaark, she's a rough biatch.

Her idiot family is going to get her right back in prison. the condition was simple. Come out leave a nice peaceful Balinese life until 2017 and you are done. Fuck up and you go back in. She has fucked up from day one, and now her sister is fucking up more. They really are morons from the get go.

Yes, they are.

Originally Posted by Sailing into trouble

Now it is wonderful is it not how certain well placed bumps on a female anatomy and a certain bone structure always mean that that person is innocent in the face of the "public"

Now from what I have read she comes from a well known drug smuggling family. She arrives in Bali with a crap load of daddies finest. Then the whole of Aus is aghast that she is locked up?

Now she has done 9 years, which is about 2 to 3 times more than western jails. In conditions 2 to 3 times as worse. She has gotten out way before she should, due to the aforementioned bumps and bone structure, only to chance her arm at pissing off the buggers who locked her away in the first place?

Ha let her go for it. I am sure her family will sue and make hay about their poor little sister /daughter and make shitloads more money while she serves the rest of her time in a crap hole.

Every society have families like this. It is bloody unreal that they can make more money in a weekend than most folk do in a lifetime.

If you have cash and outside support (which she did), doing time in that jail would be much more comfortable than any western prison.

Schapelle Corby's TV appearance sparks backlash in Indonesia

Greedy Drug Smuggling Family Tempt Fate with Interview By Proxy.....



Pressure is building in Indonesia for Schapelle Corby to have her parole revoked after Indonesia's deputy justice minister said she may have been "sneaking around the law" in her appearance on the Seven Network on Sunday.
The Corby family and Seven producers believed they would not be in breach of the Indonesian law if the Sunday Night exclusive did not include an interview with Corby herself.
We have to evaluate it to see if there is a precedent ... and so we have a strong foundation for a decision

But Nasir Jamil, a member of Komisi III, the parliament's justice and human rights committee, said Mercedes Corby doing the interview was "basically the same thing".

On the respected Metro TV program Morning Talk, justice and human rights deputy minister Denny Indrayana said another guest had made a "very good point" in saying the family had appeared to skirt around the prohibition on the convicted drug smuggler giving an interview.

"They sought permission to do the interview and we said 'no'. Now, if they are doing it through the sister, we'll have to see if that actually breaches her parole conditions," Mr Denny said.

His department would carefully review the Sunday Night program to see if it caused "restlessness" in the community.
He said the restlessness clause in Corby's parole conditions gave the government wide discretion and the "opportunity to review" a parolee's behaviour outside prison.
However, he also cited Corby's right to free speech.
"I can't give a full answer until I've seen the whole thing, but we will see if it's [evading the ruling] or it is her exercising her freedom of speech ... we have to evaluate it to see if there is a precedent ... and so we have a strong foundation for a decision."
Mr Denny said the three things that were of potential concern were the subject of the interview, whether Corby was paid for it, and whether the family had disregarded the clear instructions of the Indonesian government not to do an interview.
On the money issue, both the Corby family and the Seven Network have repeatedly denied that there has been, or would be, any payment for the program.
The subject matter that has caused most distress so far was the declaration by Mercedes that her sister was innocent, and that the marijuana found in the boogie board bag back in 2004 "could have been from Indonesia".
Mr Nasir, a member of the strongly Muslim PKS party, argued that the interview with Mercedes, and the program more broadly, had created the impression that "Indonesian law is for sale, that you can buy it".
"The community can see how the family has tried to sneak around the law. We want the government to be stern and confirm what is actually the criteria of causing restlessness. This is a country based on the rule of law, so we need to be strict and stern," Mr Nasir said.
University of Indonesia Law Professor Hikmahanto Juwana said the interview with Mercedes was designed to "drive opinion back towards Schapelle's innocence".
"Now in Australia it's divided, so it's to build back that old opinion that she's innocent."
The program showed a good deal of footage of Corby taken on the day of her release, and another shot of a sunset beach swim.
The interview with Mercedes rejected the suggestion that her late father and her own family had been involved in marijuana smuggling.
The program also concentrated heavily on Corby's "fragile" mental health.

Read more: Schapelle Corby's TV appearance sparks backlash in Indonesia

I really really hope the cheeky skank gets her parole yanked.

Getting horny?

Originally Posted by Necron99

This is a country based on the rule of law, so we need to be strict and stern," Mr Nasir said.

SUUURE it is. What hypocrites they are.

Originally Posted by Koojo

I really really hope the cheeky skank gets her parole yanked.

Indeed. Me too.

Originally Posted by Necron99

On the money issue, both the Corby family and the Seven Network have repeatedly denied that there has been, or would be, any payment for the program.

But they did confirm earlier that Mercedes was paid $20,000 just to try and talk to Corby about doing an interview...

^ There must be some way to pressure these pricks at 7.
Conspiracy, aiding and abetting, something.

Corby threatened self-harm, says Bali official

SCHAPELLE Corby threatened to harm herself with a knife when Justice Ministry officials tried to interview her on Monday night, according to an official who was present.

"In front of me she took hold of a knife but she was prevented by her family," said Bali regional corrections office chief Sunar Agus.

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'Probability' that Schapelle Corby's parole will be revoked, says justice minister

Schapelle Corby's return to Kerobokan prison seems increasingly likely as the Indonesian justice minister expresses open irritation with the drug smuggler and her family and says there is now a "probability" that her parole would be "reconsidered".

Justice and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin told Indonesian newspaper Kompas that if he revoked parole, it would largely be the fault of her family.

If there's no co-operation, the treatment might be a little stronger, and she would be picked up by the police.

"If it came to that decision ... you would have to lay most of the responsibility on her family, which I believe has shown no concern for [the political pressure] we've had to face in her case," Mr Amir said.

He was the minister who granted Corby's parole last month - even though that was a politically unpopular decision - and he also has the power to revoke it.

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Mr Amir has said he is waiting for a recommendation from the Bali Parole board, but told Kompas on Tuesday that the Corby family had tested his patience by participating in the Seven Network's Sunday Night program.

The interview - in which sister Mercedes suggested the drugs in Schapelle's boogie-board bag may have come from Indonesia - has caused political outrage in some circles in Indonesia. It came after the ministry had banned Corby herself from doing any interview, paid or unpaid.

"May I say, I suspect the family did the interview motivated by a calculation of the profits," Mr Amir is quoted saying. "I greatly regret such an attitude, if that's what it is, while we face heavy [political] criticism within the country."



Read more: 'Probability' that Schapelle Corby's parole will be revoked, says justice minister

The suspense is killing me..........


Schapelle Corby parole reviewed as Mercedes apologises for TV interview

• Authorities hold six-hour meeting on Corby’s parole
• Mercedes says sorry for interview
• Schapelle stays in toilet for hours
• Family confirms Corby has self-harmed
• Channel 7 confirms it paid for Corby’s villa, security

MERCEDES Corby has today reiterated her apology to Indonesia over her controversial television interview which now threatens to send her sister back to jail.
Looking stressed and shaky, Ms Corby, spoke briefly to the media outside her family compound in Kuta, telling reporters that the family intended no disrespect.
And her husband Wayan Widyartha said Schapelle was a “bit better” today but was still on medication for her ongoing stress and mental condition.
“From the bottom of my heart I am very sorry to the people of Indonesia if my interview on Australian TV caused unease. I apologise if my words were disrespectful to Indonesia. I did not intend any disrespect,” Ms Corby said.
“Our family are thankful and grateful that Schapelle is free on parole and we thank the Indonesian Government,” she said.
Ms Corby gave a similar statement to News Corp Australia late last night.
She would not take questions from reporters and the stress of the past few weeks was evident.
Her husband, Mr Widyartha, said: “Everything is going big and we can’t handle it,” Mr Widyartha said.
He said the family was very worried that Schapelle could end up back in prison. He said they had waited more than nine years for her freedom.
It is understood that a report, from the Justice and parole authorities in Bali, has now been finalised and will be sent soon to the Justice Minister in Jakarta.
Her repeated apology comes after Indonesian authorities held a marathon six-hour meeting that lasted into the night to discuss whether Schapelle Corby’s parole should be revoked — as her sister Mercedes issued an apology to the nation’s people.
The statement of apology dealt with the same issue that the chiefs of the Bali Justice and Corrections boards were discussing — whether Mercedes Corby’s Seven Network interview had caused unease and restlessness in the community.
The meeting also discussed the impact of sending Corby back to jail and whether her fragile mental state meant she could self-harm or attempt suicide as a result.


Drug Dealing Bogan Says......



“From the bottom of my heart I am very sorry to the people of Indonesia if my interview on Australian TV caused unease. I apologise if my words were disrespectful to Indonesia. I did not intend any disrespect.
Our family are happy and grateful that Schapelle is free on parole. We thank the Indonesian Government”


Translated from the original Boganese...

"We thought we could make some more cash out of our failed drug smuggling operations and milk my fat dumb bogan sister for all she's worth. We seem to have fucked it all up, but what do you expect from Bogans? We just hope the Indos are stupid enough to fall for our act"


Schapelle Corby parole reviewed as Mercedes apologises for TV interview | News.com.au

Originally Posted by Necron99

telling reporters that the family intended no disrespect.

Like fuck.

Hope they jail the slapper again!