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regular customer. Out of the blue, he’d gone to her house with some coke and although she didn’t have cash handy, he, unusually, gave it to her on credit. After he left, the girl sensed a sting and flushed it. Thirty minutes later, police were banging on her door.

The girl he tried to set up, she’s a princess, she’s from a royal family somewhere in Europe, really important, and well connected with a lot of rich and powerful people in Bali too, and everyone got pissed off. And they all went okay, fuck this guy, he is going to have to pay for what he just tried to do. He did exactly what we grew up understanding was the worst thing you can ever do . . .

Everybody was pissed off that he tried to set people up, nobody wanted to help him, everybody was like, ‘Fuck him, he can burn in hell.’ And a lot of people did what they could to fuck his case.

Does he know that?

Yeah, he does know that. That’s why he got such a long sentence for such a small amount. If he got busted, held himself like I did, he’d get three, four years, guaranteed. But there were a lot of people telling prosecutors and judges, don’t help this guy.

The prosecutors would listen?

Yeah, if you have people coming and say, ‘If you help this guy we’re going to Corruption Watch,’ it’s a very delicate situation. So his case just went down.

– Alberto

Ruggiero’s lawyer had been promising to get him six months, for 300 million rupiah ($43,000), but on the eve of his court case, after he’d already paid, the lawyer delivered bad news.

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