Justo to appeal against three-year jail term


Making an appeal: Justo (left) being escorted out of a courthouse in Bangkok. — AFP

BANGKOK: Xavier Andre Justo, the Swiss national held in jail here on a blackmail conviction – and embroiled in a financial scandal involving Malaysian politics – plans to appeal against his three-year jail term, he told Singapore newspaper The Straits Times.

“I wasn’t expecting three years,” he said.

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