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Medan District Court acquitted man buying subsidized fuel using jerrycan to help treat his late father's blood cancer while Medan Corruption Court sentenced a businessman free after corruption charges were not proven in the lease and control of land owning to state-run plantation firm.
Illustration of a Criminal Code (KUHP) book next to a gavel and a Lady Justice statue. (Shutterstock/ La Terase)
Courts in Medan have acquitted from all charges two defendants in separate cases involving the purchase of a large amount of subsidized gasoline using jerrycans and the lease of a state-run plantation company’s land.A panel of judges at Medan District Court decided to forgive two defendants on Thursday over the alleged misuse of subsidized fuel by buying 25 liters of Pertalite using jerrycan at a fuel station in Simpang Pos, Medan.
