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Bali Nine lawyers to aid judicial probe into bribery claims

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Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed last month.

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed last month. 

The Indonesian lawyer for Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan will assist a judicial commission probe into claims of bribery and political interference in their sentencing.

The Australians were executed last week, nine years after they were sentenced to death for trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia in the Bali Nine plot.

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On the day before they were shot, their former lawyer finally detailed claims that judges who sentenced the men asked for more than $130,000 in exchange for giving them a prison term of less than 20 years.

Muhammad Rifan says the offer was withdrawn on orders from Jakarta to impose the death penalty.

The pair's current lawyer, Todung Mulya Lubis, referred the claims to the judicial commission for investigation in February when Mr Rifan first raised them, but only recently received a summons.

He will give a statement to the commission today.

It is not known when Mr Rifan will be summonsed, or how the executions of Chan and Sukumaran will affect the investigation.

The pair had provided affidavits to the judicial commission.

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