JAKARTA: A court yesterday convicted the half brother of ousted dictator Suharto on embezzlement and fraud charges. It sentenced him to four years in prison.
Prosecutors accused Probosutedjo of taking the equivalent of US$11.2mil (RM42.5mil) from a state reforestation fund between 1994 and 1997. They say he obtained the money by falsely overstating the size of his timber estate on Borneo and the number of new trees he had planted.
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