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May 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Attorney General department officials have refuted claims that Australia did a deal with Indonesia to secure clemency for convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.
Corby, from the Gold Coast, was jailed for 20 years after she was caught in October 2004 attempting to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali in a bodyboard bag.
She was due for release in 2022 after receiving almost two years in sentence remissions for good behaviour.
However, the Indonesian government on Tuesday granted another a cut of five years following a request for clemency.
The move came soon after Australia’s release of three Indonesian minors accused of crewing asylum seeker boats.
During a Senate estimates hearing into the Attorney General’s (AG) department, Liberal frontbencher George Brandis grilled officials about the nature of meetings with the Indonesian embassy.
He was particularly interested in meetings discussing under-age Indonesian asylum seeker boat crewmembers in Australian jails between now and November 2010.
AG department Secretary Roger Wilkins said Senator Brandis was pursuing a line of questioning that there was “some sort of conspiratorial thing between Indonesia and Australia”.
Senator Brandis said he was following up on media reports that an Indonesian minister had said the return of three Indonesian nationals and Corby’s clemency had been of a “reciprocal” nature.
He said Foreign Minister Bob Carr and Attorney General Nicola Roxon had both denied that was the case.
“The inquiries that I have made would confirm that what the Australian ministers have been saying is correct,” Mr Wilkins said.
“There is no deal.”
Mr Wilkins said the department was restricted in what information it could provide because of it didn’t want to jeopardise diplomatic relations.
“There is nothing sinister being held back,” he said.
The hearing heard the AG’s department criminal justice division had been involved in 18 meetings with the Indonesian embassy either alone or with other Australian government agencies such as the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Mr Wilkins said he had met his Indonesian counterparts in Jakarta on two to three occasions, between those days.
Mr Wilkins said during those discussions it was the Indonesians who had brought up Corby.
He could not divulge the content of the conversations.
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