By Tony Wilson. -
Chief Police Reporter -
Gold Coast Bulletin
MEDIA reports that Schapelle Corby will be moved to a remote Javanese prison in the near future are not correct, her family said yesterday.
Mercedes Corby, who is on the Gold Coast for the imminent birth of her third child, said `Schapelle is definitely not getting moved.'
``It is their own rules that a person cannot be moved while her case is under appeal and we are still waiting for word of the judicial review,'' she said.
The reports claimed Ms Corby who is serving 20 years after Custom officers found 4.2kg of marijuana in her unlocked boogie board bag at Denpasar Airport on October 11, 2004, was going to be transferred to the east Java city of Malang `at any time.'
In mid 2006, 11 prisoners were taken from Kerobokan Prison in the early hours of the morning and transferred to the maximum security prison at Malang. Many of those prisoners were from Western countries and they were taken without any warning to family or legal teams.
At that time Kerobokan governor Ilham Djaya said that Schapelle Corby and Bali 9 member Renae Lawrence could be moved in the future.
He said the prison which was built to house about 350 prisoners was holding more than 900 at the time.
Mercedes said there was no Australian consulate in Malang and that was also an Indonesian rule that foreign prisoners had to have regular consular access.
``Schapelle is one of the few foreign prisoners who has immediate family living nearby and the only transfer could be to one of the other three prisons in Bali, so we are not worried about a transfer,'' she said.
Since Schapelle's arrest, Mercedes, her Balinese husband Wayan and two children, Wayan junior and Nellie have been living in Wayan's family compound in Kuta.
Schapelle's mum Rosleigh Rose said this was just the latest in a long list of media reports that were `just more lies.'