Schapelle Corby engaged in a stand-off with Bali authorities before deportation
SCHAPELLE Corby has gone head-to-head with Bali authorities, who are demanding she report to prosecutors before her deportation.
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A STAND-OFF between Schapelle Corby and Bali authorities is underway today as authorities demand she must report to prosecutors one last time before she leaves while the Corby camp claims there are too many media for her to venture outside.
The Bali prosecution’s chief, Ketut Maha Agung, has repeatedly telephoned Corby’s parole guarantor Wayan Widyartha this week telling him that she must come to his office. Each time Mr Widyartha has told of the heavy media presence outside the home which prevents her from doing so.
So this morning Mr Agung dispatched a prosecutor on a motorbike to Corby’s Kuta home to check on her.
He was met at the door by Mr Widyarta, Mercedes Corby’s former husband, and ushered inside.
He emerged after a short meeting, saying that he had been sent to “check her condition”.
“She is well,” he said as he left.
At the time of his visit the laneway in front of the modest Corby home was almost empty, with a low media presence.
Bali Law and Human Rights Ministry corrections head Surung Pasaribu said he would today contact the parole office to immediately send Corby a letter to request she appear on the 27th for a meeting.
He said her case would be like any other.
“No, no, no special treatment this will be standard operation,” he insisted.
“On the 27th she is free and then she will be escorted to immigration and its finished.”
When asked about whether he was glad Corby case was almost over, he chuckled.
He said he was speaking with the prosecutor and they agreed she had been a “headache” to them and Bali. But he agreed her case was perhaps a warning to others.
“All people from all over the world is here because there have been (drug) cases that’s sentenced, so from me it’s better, they know, not only Australians,” he said.
“For me I want to ensure she is properly deported, this is important and her human rights are protected and on the 27th she is free.”
During her three years on parole, Corby has reported monthly to her parole officers and also to the Bali prosecutions service where she has signed a book.
Mr Agung said she must come one last time, under regulations, to finish the process. But she is resisting the demands.
Local Bali media has today run stories that the “marijuana queen” from Australia has brought in her own private security guard from Australia to assist her deportation.
Corby will face sanctions if she continues to refuse requests to report to the prosecutors office, Denpasar Prosecutor chief Erna Normawati Widodi Putri said today.
Speaking outside the prosecutors office, she said time was running out, Corby had reported previously every month but not yet this month.
“I hope today still she will report, we are attempting to get here to report, obviously she is here in Bali...we have communicated with the family, I hope she will come,” she said.
“If she doesn’t report we will make her report through the Human Rights Ministry ... the ministry will determine the sanctions (if she doesn’t report).
“The deadline is May 26, we are attempting for her to come today, we also have coordination with the parole office and immigration for them to come also.”
When asked if she can be forcibly picked up and brought to the office, Edna replied: “no need to pick her up I hope she will come.”