Former Indonesian minister Edhy Prabowo jailed for 5 years over lobster scandal


Former Indonesian maritime affairs and fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo. -Antara via Reuters

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Former maritime affairs and fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo was sentenced by a court on Thursday (July 15) to five years in prison for accepting bribes in a corruption scandal involving the export of lobster larvae.

Edhy, who is a politician from the Gerindra party, was arrested last November at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport after returning home from a trip to the United States with his wife.

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