Day in court: Louhenapessy attending his trial on Rote island. — AFP
Rote (Indonesia): An Indonesian people-smuggling kingpin who organised an illegal migrant boat journey that sparked a diplomatic row with Australia was jailed for six years.
Abraham Louhenapessy, commonly known as “Captain Bram”, helped find a crew and buy a boat for a voyage intended to take 65 migrants to New Zealand in early 2015.
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