Pakistan man gets 7 years for people smuggling
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An Indonesian court sentenced a Pakistani man to seven years in jail yesterday for attempting to smuggle asylum seekers to Australia on a rickety boat that sank, killing about 90 people.
Javaid Mahmood, 55, was the second person found guilty by the East Jakarta District Court in connection with the overloaded fishing boat that capsized on its way to Christmas Island in June 2012. Another 110 people on the boat were rescued.
A panel of three judges concluded that Mahmood organized the voyage and conspired with an international syndicate that smuggled asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia. The judges said each asylum seeker paid the people smugglers up to US$5,150 to get to Australia.
Last year, the court sentenced an Afghan man, Dawood Amiri, 20, to six years in prison and ordered him to pay US$79,000. His interrogation led police to arrest Mahmood almost a year after the deadly voyage.
Prosecutors said the defendant knew that the boat was overloaded but did nothing to stop it from sailing. He was among the survivors and had organized three previous trips to Australia.
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