A former defense attorney for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran claims Indonesian judges demanded bribes of more than A$130,000 to forego capital punishment and sentence the two Australians to prison terms of fewer than 20-years.  As it happens, the two are scheduled to be executed tomorrow.

Bali-based attorney Muhammad Rifan told Fairfax News that negotiations were underway to pay the judges for the lighter sentences, when orders came from Jakarta to impose death sentences.  Rifan believes the source to have been the attorney general’s office and the Supreme Court.  The judges that eventually sentenced the men deny both the financial negotiations and the pressure from on high.

Chan and Sukumaran were sentenced to death for attempting to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop spoke to her Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi over the weekend.

“Legal challenges remain before the constitutional court and judicial commission, which raise fundamental questions about the integrity of their sentencing and the clemency process.  These claims should be heard,” Bishop said,  “I again respectfully call on the president of Indonesia to reconsider his refusal to grant clemency.”

Indonesia President Joko Widodo has thus far been adamant in refusing clemency.