The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court sentenced infamous graft defendant Nunun Nurbaeti to two-and-a-half years in jail on Wednesday in a bribery scandal surrounding the election of a top central bank official in 2004.

Nunun was also ordered to pay Rp 150 million ($16,350) in fines, or an extra three months in jail. The sentence is lighter than four years and Rp 200 million in fines demanded by prosecutors.

Judges said Nunun was guilty of channeling Rp 20.8 billion worth of traveler's checks in bribes to lawmakers to support the election of Miranda Swaray Goeltom as the then senior deputy governor of Bank Indonesia. A total of 28 lawmakers have been jailed for receiving the bribe money, but Nunun is the first person jailed for paying a bribe.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) recently named Miranda a suspect despite her claims that she had no knowledge of Nunun's alleged provision of the checks.

Businessman Ari Malangjudo, through whom Nunun allegedly channeled the bribes, has also been named suspect in the case.

Nunun became famous for claiming she was sick and suffered from memory problems before escaping overseas and evading law enforcers for about two years. She was arrested in Bangkok in December 2011.

But during her trial over the past two months, Nunun showed no signs of memory loss, recalling the case in great detail and confronting witnesses implicating her in the case, including Ari, former director of Wahana Esa Sejati, Nunun's palm oil company.