Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano confirmed on Thursday that an Italian tourist who had been imprisoned in Bali for over a year has been released.
According to an article in Il Globo, Carmine Sciaudone was arrested in May 2016 on charges of working on a tourist visa, after he was photographed helping to fix a projector while aboard party boat, Dragon 130 as a guest.
“His release is a positive outcome – which we greet with joy – of a case which I have personally followed step by step since the start,” Alfano added.
“Over the course of these months, Carmine Sciaudone and his relatives here in Italy have been constantly assisted with the maximum attention by the foreign ministry and our embassy in Jakarta.
“I take this opportunity to underscore the excellent work which the General Directorate for Italians Abroad carries out every day, in support of co-nationals who find themselves in situations of difficulty outside our country.”
The mayor of Sciaudone’s home town of Latina, Damiano Colletta, said the community is eagerly awaiting his return.
“We hail the news of his release with great joy,” Colletta concluded.
Image: Angelino Alfano – www.liberoquotidiano.it
Forgedaboudit
Well looks like sentence have been fully served. A year in prison for fixing some cables. Not bad.
Weird story hey. Raises a few questions
nonsense….
Why? Pray tell
Yes tell us about it
I don’t know the details but 1 year of jail for a visa violation is a nonsense.
I had a Dj once playing and caught without a kitas and that was sorted out rather swiftly, albeit kinda expensively (but not as much as 2.5 yrs, what this fella was originally sentenced to, I believe)
And it does not make sense…I mean you do a crime you do the time….you don’t pay your visa taxes you get expelled and blacklisted instead in jail it will increase the cost for the government of your presence in the country.
Are they letting him go, finally? It’s terrible what happened.
What did happen?
Stuart Beat good question but unpleasant by the sound of it
Haven’t heard much about that dragon boat for a while either
He left 2 days ago….
Stuart Beat he was caught adjusting a projector on a boat party without imta and arrested. Poor guy has been stuck in a detention holding cell in jimbiran for a year waiting to be flown home. Was expecting to be there overnight and they held him. Not sure why but his cell was pretty shitty.
Bali Post had an article last year saying the prosecution was asking for 2.5 years. But after that nothing more. They must have been onto him or the boat
Jason Stone He was in Kerobakan for months as well as detention house in Jimbiran. Poor guy didn’t know what hit him!!
Scotty Dobson I know. Thought he was being sent home and a year later he’s still here. Maybe they r setting an example for people who work here without the proper permits
how ridiculous this is and it happens all the time in Indonesia . Why ?
Obviously there is more to the story than what was posted
id say they caught him. he was beligerent. so thet threw the book at him..
Apparently immigration is pretty hard on those boats as they’re an easy target.
I witnessed a promoter getting a huge fine and booted from the island for using a mic during the cruise.
If leisure and entertainment is Bali’s main draw, they’re really shooting themselves in the foot.
So yeah, don’t think you’re safe just because you’re technically off the island. They have guys everywhere.
This monkeys in Indonesia sentence people for noting