Name Pollycarpus Priyanto Role Pilot | Spouse Josephina Hera | |
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Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto (born January 25, 1961 in Surakarta) is a former Garuda Indonesia airline pilot. He poisoned human rights activist Munir Said Thalib with arsenic on September 7, 2004. On August 8, 2005, he went on trial for the murder.
In December 2005, Priyanto was found guilty and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment. In October 2006, his charge was annulled by the Supreme Court, citing insufficient evidence.
He was released on December 26, 2006, after receiving a month reduction on his sentence - less than the time remaining to serve - as part of a holiday amnesty.
The Supreme Court then re-opened the case for a judicial review, and he was sentenced again on January 24, 2008, this time to 20 years.
In November 2014, Priyanto was released from prison.