More than $US30,000 ($42,000) allegedly paid to people smugglers by Australian officials to return their boat to Indonesia will not be presented as evidence in the men's trial. An Indonesian police probe in   June found six crew members had been paid between $US5000 and $US6000 to turn back 65 asylum seekers headed for New Zealand. The prosecution had wanted to present "alleged bribery money from the Australian government" in court as further evidence of people smuggling, but prosecutor Alexander Sele said the police had insisted the crew had not committed a crime when they accepted payments from Australian officials. Last week an Amnesty International report said all available evidence pointed to the officials having committed a transnational crime by, in effect, directing a people smuggling operation in   May this year, paying a boat crew and then instructing them where in Indonesia to land. The six men on trial in Indonesia face sentences of five to 15 years if convicted. 
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