KPK Investigates the Provision of Tax Management Money through Salisa Asmoaji

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) continues to investigate the provision of money to handle cigarette taxes. Investigators traced the flow of money to a number of parties in the Directorate General of Customs and Excise through Salisa Asmoaji as an employee.

"In today's examination, investigators deepened the witness regarding the alleged receipt by an individual at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise. In particular, those related to tax management," said KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo to reporters through his written statement, Monday, April 4.

Even so, Budi did not elaborate further on the provision of the money. Meanwhile, Salisa underwent an examination at around 09.05 WIB at the KPK's Red and White building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta.

In this case, Salisa is known to have been questioned on Thursday, April 9 and Wednesday, February 18. At that time, investigators investigated the cigarette entrepreneur who allegedly gave money to officials at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise.

This investigation is an expansion of the case of bribery in the import of goods which was revealed from a silent operation some time ago. Currently, the KPK is known to be investigating alleged bribery related to cigarette taxes and bribes from forwarders.

The KPK previously suspected that there were cigarette manufacturers who gave bribes to the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) to circumvent taxes from Central Java and East Java. The findings were obtained after Budiman Bayu Prasojo as Head of the Tax Intelligence Section of P2 DJBC was named a suspect and detained on Friday, February 27.

This determination is an expansion of the hand-in-hand operation (OTT) on February 4. At that time, six suspects were announced, one of which was the Director of Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (P2 DJBC) for the period 2024-2026, Rizal.

Then, it was also determined as a suspect, namely Sisprian Subiaksono (SIS) as Head of the Sub Directorate of Intelligence, Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Kasubdit Intel P2 DJBC); Orlando Hamonangan (ORL) as Head of the Intelligence Section of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Kasi Intel DJBC); John Field (JF) as owner of PT Blueray (BR); Andri as Head of the Import Documents Team of PT BR; and Dedy Kurniawan as Operational Manager of PT BR.