Thread: Schapelle Corby - Guilty or not?

Originally Posted by terry57

Originally Posted by BKKBanger

She has not spent enough time in prison yet, a bit longer is needed.

The only thing that pisses me off is that she will make a lot of money selling her story.

As far as keeping her Banged up goes, ya friggin joking ain't Ya. ????

So you reckon 9 years already served hard time in Bali finest ain't enough. ?

Lucky she has survived it I reckon. Stupid bint anyway but she's done enough.

Caught in October 2004 and locked up since, so 9 years is right. She was sentenced to 20 years but has had various lumps knocked off so the expiry of her sentence is September 2016, a mere 12 years.

She may shortly get parole and be allowed to live in the community, hopefully not near me. She would be allowed to return home in September 2017 as you remain under the supervision of the corrections board until one year after the sentence expires, some 13 years after being caught with a BIG BAG OF DRUGS.

So a 20 year sentence and you reckon she should be let out after 9 years or less????? That would make a mockery of the sentence, she should do a bit more and at least half in prison.

I make no judgement on whether such stiff penalties are appropiate as they are set out in Indonesian law.

Originally Posted by terry57

The only thing that pisses me off is that she will make a lot of money selling her story.

Dunno, if given a choice between a lot of money for a decade plus in prison or my freedom, I think I'd choose freedom over the money.

KW, you are right on that one, anything she sees out of it will be a lot less than the worth of the time spent.

And she need not even sell it, an unathorised biography and TV mini series for Australians to whinge about how awful it all was.....

AN INDONESIAN lawmaker says claims that Australia spied on Indonesia should be taken into account in deciding Schapelle Corby's parole.
As anger continues to grow in Indonesia over the phone tapping allegations, a powerful parliamentary committee says it will summon the Justice and Human Rights Minister in the next two weeks.
"The spying should be used as an additional consideration for the Justice and Human Rights Minister in Corby's parole process," Aziz Syamsuddin told News Ltd.
Mr Syamsuddin is the deputy chair of the House of Representatives Commission 111 on legal affairs. His comments come as the Bali Jail Governor says Corby has been anxiously asking about when her parole will be granted.
'WE SPY ON YOU TOO': GENERAL
"If I am the Minister, I will reject Corby's parole. But I am not the minister. So, we only can give suggestion to him," Mr Syamsuddin said, as Indonesians continued to vent their fury over the claims that the phones of their leaders were tapped by Australian spies.
Mr Syamsuddin said the commission would have a meeting with the Justice Minister in the next two weeks to discuss issues around Corby's parole application.
"Australia spying is harassment toward Indonesia. Indonesia should give a sanction to Australia. The sanction could be taking back our ambassador in Australia to Indonesia or even casting out the Australian ambassador from Indonesia," he said.
The Justice Minister, Amir Syamsuddin, has the final say on Corby's parole, which has now been bogged down in bureaucratic red tape for weeks.
Officials in Bali have given it the green light but Jakarta has the final sign-off. Several issues remain outstanding - an Immigration Department letter giving her permission to live in Indonesia while on parole needs to be secured, along with a new guarantee letter from the Australian Government.
Indonesian officials recently said the Australian Government letter currently on file was not on the correct letterhead.
Another committee member, Eva Kusuma Sundari, who has previously slammed the decision to grant Corby parole, said she did not want to comment further because she had been "bullied" by Corby supporters for her stance.


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Poor Eva, bullied by Australians indignant that Schorby was locked up for having a BIG BAG OF DRUGS. Makes you wonder why she went into politics...... oh yes, lots of money.

I find Indonesians quite arrogant in officialdom, with no justification. The process is dragged out because of incompetence.

I flew to Jakarta once with an application for some worthless bit of paper and the 14 documents required as advised by the Department over the phone and on their Website. I found the desk in the office that the person worked at that granted this document. Taped to the desk was a list of 15 documents required.

When queried he said that was the regulation. Presumably as made up by himself.

That this hapless smuggler of a BIG BAG OF DRUGS should be confined longer due to paperwork incompetence and international relations is laughable.

Originally Posted by BKKBanger

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TV mini series for Australians to whinge about how awful it all was.....

Not true mate, the vast majority of Australians could not give a flying fuk about her.

She done the crime so suck it up, coming from a loser family done nothing for her cause.

Many Australians do feel she has done enough time for fuking up and its time for her to start over again.

Keeping her banged up is serving no purpose, she has payed for her crime a thousand times over.

Bali penitentiary ain't no Australian jail. 9 years there must equal 20 in Australia.

Originally Posted by terry57

Originally Posted by BKKBanger

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TV mini series for Australians to whinge about how awful it all was.....

Not true mate, the vast majority of Australians could not give a flying fuk about her.

She done the crime so suck it up, coming from a loser family done nothing for her cause.

Many Australians do feel she has done enough time for fuking up and its time for her to start over again.

Keeping her banged up is serving no purpose, she has payed for her crime a thousand times over.

Bali penitentiary ain't no Australian jail. 9 years there must equal 20 in Australia.

If you were to believ opinion polls here is one reported by the Age in 2010:

According to the Nielsen poll of 1400 people, 74 per cent believe Corby's sentence is too harsh. Thirty-four per cent want her released now while 40 per cent think she should serve a reduced sentence of between 10 and 15 years.
Fewer then one in five (18 per cent) want her to serve her full term.
Corby, a Gold Coast beauty student, was arrested in 2004 amid a media frenzy. Polling at the time indicated most Australians believed her to be innocent. But, as more facts emerged over the years, the sentiment has turned.
Just one in 10 respondents in the Nielsen poll taken last week believed she was innocent, while 41 per cent said she was guilty and 48 per cent said they did not know.

It appears 52% of Australians had an opinon on her case, that is a very high number to work with if you are a TV producer.

Which angle would you work??? The arrogent drug addict out for a buck or the Gold Coast beauty student innocently duped by a corrupt regime obsessed with punishing Australians...........

As to paying for her crime etc. she has received a pretty average sentence and will be out on parole in an average time.

And are Australian prisons any "better"? Can you get out for a bit of clubbing, a few drinks and the occassional tennis tournament?

Originally Posted by BKKBanger

Innocently duped by a corrupt regime obsessed with punishing Australians...........

Typical Journalistic bull shit right there innit. The officials are just enforcing there law.

Everybody on the face of the Earth knows how strict the Indo's are on Drug smugglers yet we have a high number of stupid Australians pulling on the system.

I have no problem with there sentencing but at the same time consider 9 years is enough for her.

Just my opinion though, her problem not mine .

By the way her Muppet brother that was with her when she was convicted has just been convicted for drugs in Australia.

No hope for that family.

Originally Posted by terry57

Originally Posted by BKKBanger

Innocently duped by a corrupt regime obsessed with punishing Australians...........

Typical Journalistic bull shit right there innit. The officials are just enforcing there law.
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Actually that was my own spin for the mini-series.

The script runs something like:

Innocent beautiful virginal beauty queen surfer chick going to perform selfless charity work in poor deprived viallges in Bali has her luggage tampered with by Indonesian gangsters in Sydney airport.

Caught red handed with this BIG BAG OF DRUGS her innocent pleas fall on deaf ears as corrupt and very fat Indonesian officials conspire to punish her in revenge for East Timor and Neighbours.

Poor lass ends up in hell hole, beating off the cockroaches and approaches of violent lesbian inmates whilst increasingly sweaty and grimey. A tastefully filmed but harrowing lesbian rape scene at this point I feel would make the dramatic point quite well.

Perhaps we could then introduce a Governor who likes to stroke a pussy and is quite sinister in ignoring her complaints and whingeing about the food.

Of course she has to go on to earn the respect of the inmates and guards through her selfless nature.

Each appeal falls on callous ears as her righteous pleas are rejected by cruel officials.

Eventually she gets released and takes to a nunnery.




Uhhhm, perhaps the ending needs a bit more work.

The end will go like this,

" Corby is released from jail and has now signed a book deal worth 500 K. "


There is proceeds of crime law in Australia that is designed to stop criminals such as Corby from making money from there crimes.

I wonder how it will play out in her case considering she will be confined to Bali on parole.

Nothing to stop her slinging it all in the bank over there is there ?

I think writing a book proclaiming her innocence while on parole would be a good way to have her parole revoked.
And if she writes that she was guilty, well, no one is gonna publish that.

Originally Posted by Necron99

I think writing a book proclaiming her innocence while on parole would be a good way to have her parole revoked.
And if she writes that she was guilty, well, no one is gonna publish that.

Translation: few will buy it.

It's an old story now. Not much "new" to come out unless she wants to detail the very beginning of entering the airport, whether innocent or not, and then a few prison stories.

The prison stories are so, "last year."

7:25pm: We're seeking clarification on the Justice Minister's statement, which was not clear. He said that 1291 parole applications have been finished. It appears as though Schapelle Corby was one of the prisoners granted parole today.

Schapelle Corby parole verdict handed down

Schapelle Corby gets parole
Friday Feb 7, 2014


Schapelle Corby.
Photo / AP

Drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been granted parole.

Indonesia's Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin said the Australian would get parole after serving nine years in Bali's Kerobokan Prison for smuggling 4.2 kilograms of cannabis into the country.

Mr Syamsuddin made the anticipated announcement on Friday afternoon in Jakarta, while Corby awaited the news in Kerobokan.

But the head of Kerobokan jail says it's impossible she'll be released on Friday and she might have to wait until Monday to taste freedom.

When she is released, Corby, 36, will serve her parole in the Kuta home of her sister Mercedes and her husband Wayan Widyartha.

The former Gold Coast beauty student has always maintained her innocence after being caught with the cannabis in her body board bag at Bali airport on October 8, 2004.

She was found guilty on May 27, 2005 and sentenced to 20 years' jail.

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Originally Posted by Necron99

I think writing a book proclaiming her innocence while on parole would be a good way to have her parole revoked.
And if she writes that she was guilty, well, no one is gonna publish that.

Spot on.

Schapelle Corby's parole application has been approved by Indonesia's justice minister.

Amir Syamsuddin held a press conference in Jakarta where he spoke about the prisoner applications he has been reviewing, including Corby's.

He did not specifically mention Corby's case, but following his comments it was confirmed in a statement that Corby had fulfilled all the terms for parole as required under Indonesian law.

The former Gold Coast beauty student was jailed in Bali in 2005 after authorities found 4.1 kilograms of marijuana in her bodyboard bag at Denpasar airport the year before.

Schapelle Corby's parole decision: Live blog - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


Oh lord deliver us from the ensuing media circus. I think i will have to disconnect the TV and internet and go and hide in a forest for a month.

When Schapelle Corby is released as expected this week, she is headed for a job designing bikinis, a new home until 2017 and a big party.

But first she must run the gauntlet of a sizeable media scrum and an angry local reaction, including a call for the death penalty, before taking her first steps as a free woman since she was jailed nine years ago.

''Corby deserves the death penalty,'' said Ahmad Yani, a member of the minority Islamic United Development Party. ''We lose 50 children to drugs every day.''

More mainstream views were also highly critical.

''Corby's freeing is highly offensive to society's sense of justice,'' ran an editorial in the newspaper Media Indonesia, a view also carried by Metro TV, a major news channel. ''Is not that the same as rewarding an enemy who has killed our children?''

Not aiding these perceptions of special privilege are somewhat overblown reports about how much money ''the ganja queen'' stands to collect from a post-release interview.

No matter the controversy, the freedoms Corby will enjoy on parole will be light years from her time in Kerobokan Prison. She may not even need to stay in her sister Mercedes' Kuta compound, where Australia's media contingent is expected to relocate after she walks free.

Almost 10 years after she travelled to Indonesia for her sister's 30th birthday, she will finally get to party in Bali.

A close friend of the Corby family living in Bali says ''most definitely'' there will be a celebration for Corby when she's released.

Dane Kasih, born on the Gold Coast and now living and working in Bali, says Corby deserves a big welcome home party. ''A 'good job for doing your time','' he says.

Under her parole conditions there is no obligation on her to admit any responsibility for the 4.2 kilograms of marijuana found in her boogie board bag in October 8, 2004.

In documents signed by Corby in Kerobokan prison last August, the Australian promised to abide by a series of relatively light conditions.

While on parole, she said, she would not use or distribute drugs, she would report at least monthly to the Bali corrections board, and she would ''dress neatly and appropriately for the officials''.

''If I cannot fulfil those requirements, I'm ready to be sent back to prison to undergo the rest of the sentence,'' Corby said in the documents.

Corby told corrections officials she would be productively employed designing bikinis for her brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha's surf shop, according to the chief of Bali's corrections board, Ketut Artha.

The board that will watch for her welfare and behaviour after her release will also make snap inspections of the family compound to make sure it remains suitable, but Corby does not necessarily need to live there.

Under Indonesia's corrections system, Corby must have a home base, which will be the house of her sister Mercedes and brother-in-law

But Mr Ketut told Fairfax Media she was allowed to move from there to anywhere in Bali, so long as she continued to fulfil the other criteria of her parole.

If she wanted to go to another part of Indonesia, she would need permission from the Justice Ministry.

However, she cannot go outside Indonesia until her parole is fully served, which is expected to be on July 25, 2017, after she has served an extra 12 months for ''guidance''.

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I reckon she'd be happy with that. What's the bet the media will trigger one of her moron family to blow up?

Live: Schapelle Corby leaves Kerobokan Prison ahead of release
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Schapelle Corby leaves Kerobokan Prison in Bali

PHOTO: Schapelle Corby leaves Kerobokan Prison (centre, in checked hat) in Bali ahead of her release on parole. (ABC News)
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Schapelle Corby has left Bali's Kerobokan Prison ahead of her release on parole today.

There were chaotic scenes as Corby was escorted from the prison to a special police van that is taking her to the Bali prosecutor's office, where she will fill out paperwork to secure her release.

She will then be transferred to the parole office where she will be fingerprinted and have a lengthy discussion about her parole conditions.

Corby is expected to be released this afternoon.

Follow our live blog for live updates and reaction.
Live: Schapelle Corby leaves Kerobokan Prison ahead of release - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Politicians All Hot and Bothered Over Corby’s Release
By Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho on 5:14 pm February 11, 2014.
Category Crime, News, Politics
Tags: drugs, Schapelle Corby
Jakarta. When convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby was released on parole from a jail in Bali on Monday, it wasn’t just the horde of reporters from her native Australia who went into a frenzy.

In Jakarta, politicians have been fuming at what they consider a travesty of the justice system, and are threatening to make the humdrum issue of a convict qualifying for early release a matter of national scrutiny.

Aboe Bakar Al Habsy, a member of the House of Representatives from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), said on Tuesday that legislators could invoke their interpellation right on the issue — the House’s standard trope for demanding an official explanation from the government on an issue of national importance.

Brushing aside criticism that such a move was overkill, Aboe Bakar said that permitting the release of Corby nine years into a 20-year sentence (reduced to just under 13 following several cuts) was a huge mistake on the government’s part and sent out the wrong message about Indonesia’s campaign to crack down on drug offenses.

“We’ll definitely be talking about Corby’s parole in House Commission III” — which oversees legal affairs — “because the government granted it knowing full well that what she did was a very serious crime,” he said.

“The interpellation issue is one that we still need to discuss further.”

Corby was released from Bali’s Kerobokan Penitentiary on Monday, following her May 2005 conviction for attempting to smuggle 4.2 kilograms of marijuana into the country in October 2004. One of the conditions of her parole is that she will not be allowed to leave Indonesia until August 2017.

Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin had announced a day earlier that she had qualified for early release, following a string of sentence cuts and based on her behavior while at Kerobokan. He stressed the government had not given her preferrential treatment and that she was part of a batch of more than 1,200 inmates nationwide granted parole.

However, House Deputy Speaker Pramono Anung said the “international lobbying” in recent years by Australia to get Corby released “was plainly visible and undeniable.”

“We feel that this decision fell far short of the public’s sense of justice,” he said on Tuesday.

“The government has been duplicitous about this.”

Syarifuddin Sudding, a House Commission III member from the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura), proposed that a working committee be established to pursue an inquiry into why Corby had been granted early release.

“We’ll discuss it immediately at an internal meeting of the commission. We’ve already talked about it informally,” he said, adding that most legislators had expressed disappointment at the “special treatment” given to Corby.

That purported majority did not include Pieter Zulkiflie, the House Commission III chairman, who said all talk of a working committee or government interpellation was excessive.

“They can have their working committee if they want, but I feel it’s just too much. We have to respect the decision by the [Justice Ministry], and I for one laud their policy,” said Pieter, who, like Amir, is a member of the ruling Democratic Party.

Politicians All Hot and Bothered Over Corby's Release - The Jakarta Globe

Controversy Over Schapelle Corby’s TV Interview Deal
By Agence France-Presse on 6:54 pm February 11, 2014.


Australian beauty therapist Schapelle Corby receives a kiss from her mother after she was found guilty of trying to smuggle 4.1kg (9 lb) of marijuana into Bali in 2004, in a Denpasar court on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, in this file picture taken May 27, 2005. (Reuters Photo)


Seminyak, Bali. Freed drug trafficker Schapelle Corby faced criticism Tuesday that she is cashing in on her crime, as reports she has been offered millions for her first post-jail interview were played down by the Australian network trying to sign her up.

Channel Seven was widely reported to have secured the first interview with the 36-year-old for up to AUS$2 million ($1.8 million) following her release on parole Monday from prison on Indonesia’s Bali island.

But reporter Mike Willesee said Tuesday that no deal had been finalized, calling reports of the sums involved “silly” and insisting the money being discussed was “considerably lower.”

His comments came as controversy builds about whether Corby should be allowed to profit from her more than nine years behind bars, with experts divided on whether Australian law would permit it.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has previously made clear that Corby should not be allowed to profit while on Tuesday Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey tweeted that it would send “all the wrong messages.”

Corby’s case has been the subject of huge fascination back home ever since her 2004 arrest in Bali, a favourite holiday spot for Australians, with marijuana stashed in her surfing gear.

She fought through a huge media scrum with her face covered on her release Monday before being whisked away to a luxury resort and spa in Bali’s upmarket Seminyak district.

The first picture of Corby without her face covered since her release was published Tuesday in an Australian magazine, showing her smiling as she drank a beer with her brother.

But which organization has secured the first sit-down chat with the convicted drug smuggler is unclear with Channel Seven’s Willesee playing down reports it would be his network.

“At this stage we don’t have a paid interview, but I can tell you the money they’re talking about… is just really silly,” the veteran journalist said as he went for a walk outside the luxury resort. ”The money being discussed is considerably lower. It’s way, way lower.”

Willesee said that there were a “few things up in the air” and he did not know when an interview might happen.

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.”

Experts were divided on whether Corby and her family would be able to hang on to the money through clever accounting or whether they would end up losing much of it.

“If Corby’s smart… she won’t profit directly from this money,” law lecturer Hugh McDermott at Charles Sturt University told The Australian newspaper.

“The money will go to her family or a separate trust. There’s millions of dollars to be made here and I imagine they’ll structure it in a way to keep it out of the hands of law enforcers.”

Hordes of Australian journalists were still staking out the luxury resort Tuesday, scrutinizing every vehicle going in and out, trying to catch a glimpse of Corby and what her next move might be.

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INDONESIAN authorities have paid Schapelle Corby an unscheduled visit.

Corby’s parole team visited her at the Sentosa Seminyak resort where she is staying, where they spoke to her, sister Mercedes and brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha.
The parole team later said Corby herself had seemed tired during their meeting and they talked mainly to Mercedes and to Widyartha.
The visit comes as critics voice their disapproval of Corby’s accommodation and reported $2 million interview deal with the Seven Network.
The governor of Kerobokan Prison, Farid Junaedi, told the Denpost newspaper that Corby would be “stupid” to do such an interview.
“On parole, she is still considered as a prisoner, though she’s free and outside,” he was quoted as saying.
“I’ve made it clear to the family that if she’s willing to be interviewed, that would be stupid of her.”
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has also warned that his government would seek to prevent Corby from profiting from her situation.
Newman said he would be asking his Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie if payments to Corby could be stopped under Queensland’s proceeds of crime laws.
“I am deeply concerned, in fact I am dismayed, that a convicted drug criminal has benefited it appears from her criminal activity,’’ Mr Newman told reporters in Brisbane today.


No payday for Corby ... Queensland Premier Campbell Newman. Picture: Glenn Barnes Source: News Limited



Mr Newman said he respected Indonesia’s justice system and its decision to convict Corby.
“I just think we need to recognise there was a trial in Indonesia, she was appropriately convicted, she went to jail and now it appears she’s benefiting from this act and I don’t think it’s very satisfactory.
“So we will look and see whether that Queensland legislation has any application.’’
His comments come after Channel Seven personalities and senior government figures voiced their opposition to the television network’s decision to pay Corby $2 million to tell her story.
Treasurer Joe Hockey and Seven star David Koch are among those who have expressed their distaste over Corby’s possible windfall.
The growing anger comes as details of the convicted drug smuggler’s parole conditions have emerged.
Corby’s parole conditions were laid down and originally signed in August last year.
In that letter, obtained by News Corp Australia, Corby made a series of pledges including to not commit any criminal acts, to not use or distribute any kind of narcotics and to report to the parole authority every month.
Corby also agreed to receive guidance from the parole team and to dress modestly and neatly for the officers.







On Tuesday, at the parole office, Corby signed another document, pledging to abide by the parole conditions.
It said: “This time, I am serving parole, so I declare that I am able to report and will not commit crime anymore.
If I don’t obey to the provision that is obliged, I am ready if my parole is revoked to serving my sentence at the jail.
That statement is made honestly to be used.”
Corby signed the document, which had a signature stamp at the bottom.
Taking into account ratings for rival Nine’s Schapelle telemovie and the Schapelle: Finally Free documentary, Seven’s interview gamble may well not pay off.
Industry insiders suggests Seven would likely charge $100,000 for a 30-second spot during the interview, double its usual rate, but advertisers may be wary of waning public interest in the convicted drug smuggler.
Nine’s Schapelle telemovie averaged an ordinary 1.022 million viewers across Australia’s five capital cities on Sunday — only half the whopping 1.974 million for Seven’s INXS: Never Tear Us Apart.


Luxury ... Schapelle Corby is currently staying at the Sentosa Seminyak resort. Source: Supplied



Monday’s Schapelle — Finally Free documentary did even worse with a poor 627,000 viewers nationally, and the repeat of the Schapelle telemovie attracted just 241,000 straight after.Sunrise host David Koch made his feelings clear on Sunrise on Tuesday.
“I reckon we should have nothing to do with her as a network,” he said on air.
“I totally disagree with paying a convicted drug smuggler $2 million. I know Indonesia is corrupt and all that sort of stuff, but she is convicted.”
Later he referred again to the controversial payment in a call-out to viewers to enter the show’s cash giveaway competition.


Interview controversy ... Sunrise host David Koch says he disagrees with paying a convicted drug smuggler $2 million. Source: News Limited



“How would you like to win some Mega Cool cash without spending time in an overseas jail?,” he said during the segment.Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey congratulated Koch for his stance on Corby’s paid interview.
“It sends all the wrong messages on drugs for a convicted trafficker to be paid for her story,” Mr Hockey said on Twitter.
And fellow Seven personalities supported Koch’s stance, with radio host and Sunrise regular Jason Morrison tweeting “Good on @kochie_online 7 network should not be paying #SchapelleCorby Well done for speaking up.”


No deal ... Mercedes Corby has released a statement denying the family had been paid $2 million for the interview. Picture: Bradley Hunter Source: News Limited



Mercedes Corby released a statement denying the family had been paid $2 million for the interview.
“If Schapelle feels that she wants to tell story to the Australian public, she will do it with someone she trusts. It was never a matter of going with the highest bidder,” Mercedes said.
“This choice was made easier with Channel Nine broadcasting a film based on a book Sins of the Father which is full of false allegations and which we are taking defamation action against.”
Seven sports reporter Jim Wilson also weighed in on Twitter, criticising Corby’s cloak and dagger exit from jail writing “The whole scarf over the head was ridiculous yesterday, walk out give a statement and then go and do your sit down tell all, done!”
He later defended the network when his Twitter followers pointed out the extreme secrecy was to protect his own employer’s exclusive, describing the bidding war as “the way of the world”.
“Not talking right and wrong all I’m saying is take your scarf off & give a short statement then do the tell all, end of story,” he replied to one critic.
It is believed the Seven deal was stitched up in such secrecy, even the network’s own reporters on the ground in Bali were in the dark it, with journalist Robert Ovadia reportedly as taken aback as the rest of the media pack when word filtered through.
Seven management would only offer a “polite decline on that one” when asked to comment on Koch’s outburst.


Statement ... Indonesia’s anti-drugs movement, Granat, says it “deplores” the fact that Schapelle Corby has been released on parole. Picture: Bradley Hunter Source: News Limited



In Indonesia, criticism continues about Corby’s release and news that she will make a small fortune from the tell-all media interview.
And her parole officers have warned that any media interview conducted without their permission would be a disciplinary matter. They say that she should have asked them first and co-ordinated the interview with them.







The parole authority called Corby’s brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha on Monday night to discuss this and to find out where Corby was staying, after hearing from the media that she was holed up in a luxury Seminyak villa with a TV crew.
Indonesia’s anti-drugs movement, Granat, says it “deplores” the fact that Corby has been released on parole and that it is contrary to the country’s stated opposition to drugs.
Granat have long campaigned against Corby, at her original trial and later when the Indonesian President granted her a five-year clemency.
One former politician, in a Tweet, described Corby as “Queen Corby and questioned what happened behind the scenes in order for her to be given such “generosity”.
The former head of Indonesia’s Democratic Party, Anas Urbaningrum, who has now been arrested on corruption charges, tweeted: “Queen Corby is ready to get generosity. What happen behind this thing? “Is the queen Corby like “a bid that is almost impossible to be rejected.”
Last week a group of parliamentarians signed a petition to the President, arguing against Corby’s parole, pointing out that the Indonesian Government has long had a policy of drug eradication.


In Bali ... TV veteran Mike Willesee is preparing to interview Schapelle Corby Source: AP



Letting drug traffickers out of jail early was contrary to this policy, the petition said.
Henry Yosodiningrat, from the Indonesian anti-drugs movement Granat, was outraged that Corby was staying in a luxury villa — and not the home on her parole papers — and reportedly doing a paid media interview.
“She has violated the rule as she is not staying at the house where she should live. I demand the government to revoke her parole,” Mr Yosodiningrat said.
“What Corby has done has already hurt Indonesian people. After release, a drug smuggler lives in a luxury villa and makes money from exclusive interview with a television station. It is obviously hurting Indonesian people.”
“I strongly demand the government to revoke her parole,” he said.


Dramatisation ... Krew Boylan as Schapelle Corby in Schapelle. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied



Media buyer Steve Allen estimates Seven would be charging twice the normal rate for its special edition of Sunday Night with a Schapelle Corby interview — ie at least $100,000 for an advertising spot — and there would be plenty of companies willing to pay it.
“There would only be a very limited number of companies that would baulk at advertising (during Schapelle interview),” Mr Allen says.
“If this (advertising in a show that involved convicted criminals) was an issue no-one would have advertised in Underbelly.
“We give a lot of credence to Mike Willesee. If anyone is going to get close to the truth it will be him.
“We think this will produce big ratings. If you were an advertiser trying to steal a march on your competitors at twice the normal price you’d buy it.
“They (potential advertisers) will be looking at ratings.”
Media analyst Nathan Cook also said Seven was unlikely to face an advertiser backlash, despite public sentiment turning against the Corbys.
“I am sure there would be clients with some sensitivity to going (advertising) into the show but at the end of the day, even if Seven had to go ad-free, I am sure they would have paid the money,” he said.
“They (Seven) are not paying the money (for the interview) to get immediate advertising revenue. It is more about kudos, getting commercial share and being able to cross-promote their shows for the rest of the week.”


Campbell Newman could stop Schapelle Corby being paid for interview | News.com.au

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.
And there is no issue with jurisdiction, plenty of precedents for that (paedo laws).

If, like they said happened with the book deal it gets given to the brother in law, I bet the next words out of his mouth are "I divorce you I divorce you I divorce you..."

She has already broken parole by not staying in the agreed residence. They should bang her straight back in.


Willisee is a plonk for agreeing to do it. Probably needs the cash.
did I ever tell you he lost 12 million to us when I worked for a bookie? Tried to give us the top end hotel as part payment.....