0 Correctional board team visits Corby

Three days after being released, convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Leigh Corby was visited by a team from the Denpasar Correctional Board (Bapas) at the luxurious villa where she has been staying since her release Monday. The visit on Wednesday was conducted by the team to ensure Corby was staying there. “The Bapas team has already visited her this morning at the villa. 

They reported that Corby is now a little stressed because she is always followed by journalists,” head of the Law and Human Rights Ministry’s Bali office, Gusti Kompiang Adnyana, told reporters in Denpasar on Wednesday. The four-person Bapas team, which included Bapas head Ketut Artha, arrived at around 9 a.m. and met with Corby’s family for approximately one hour. 

They apparently only spent five minutes with Corby, who was reportedly feeling unwell. The remainder of the time was spent conversing with her sister, Mercedes Corby, and brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha. “She looked tired, but fine,” Corby’s Bapas mentor during parole, Ni Luh Putu Andiyani, said. Andiyani refused to talk much about their visit. However, a source said that Corby’s sister told the team that Corby had taken medicine and needed to sleep. 

The team apparently spent most of the time mentoring Widyartha, who is Corby’s guarantor during her parole, and reminding him and Mercedes that Corby remained under the supervision of Bapas. “The visit was carried out only to ensure that Corby really was staying there,” Andiyani said. On attaining her freedom Monday, Corby, who was arrested at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar in October 2004 for smuggling 4.2 kilograms of marijuana into Indonesia, went directly to Sentosa Seminyak, a luxurious hotel in Jl. Pura Telaga Waja in Petitenget, instead of her brother-in-law’s house at Jl. Pantai Kuta, Gg. Lotring No. 14. 

This was despite the fact that the latter’s address was registered on the parole document as Corby’s residence during parole. However, Bapas has confirmed that Corby can stay wherever she wants in Bali, as long as she informs the board. Andiyani said that Widyartha had not confirmed how long Corby would stay in the villa. “He promised me that if Corby wanted to stay somewhere else, he would talk to Bapas,” said Andiyani. Corby was granted parole by Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin last week. 

In 2012, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono granted Corby a five year sentence reduction. On Monday morning, Corby finally left Kerobokan prison, which had been her home for more than nine years. However, she will have to live in Bali under the supervision of the correctional board until the end of her sentence, plus an additional year after that. This means that Corby should remain in Bali until May 2017. During parole, she must report to Bapas and the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office once a month and not break any laws. “If she commits any crime we will consider revoking her parole, so she would be taken back to jail,” Artha stated.

source : bali daily