The Trial For Reading The Verdicts Of Two Defendants Of The Former Directorate General Of Taxes Is Postponed

Documentation - The defendant in the bribery case in the tax administration, Angin Prayitno Aji (right) on the agenda for reading the demands at the Corruption Court, Jakarta, Tuesday (11/1/2022). BETWEEN PHOTOS/Hafidz Mubarak A/tom.

JAKARTA - The trial for reading the verdict on the case of engineering the tax calculation results for the accused, former Director of Audit and Collection at the Directorate General of Taxes (DJP) Angin Prayitno Aji, and former Head of Sub-Directorate of Cooperation and Audit Support for DJP Dadan Ramndani, has been postponed.

"According to the minutes of the last trial, today the plan is to read out the verdict on the two of you, because yesterday there was an incident that this court was 'locked down' for a few days, so the judges returned to their respective regions, so the deliberations have not been completed," said the chairman of the panel. Judge Fazhal Hendri at the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor), reported by Antara, Thursday, February 3.

"Therefore, the panel of judges asked for tomorrow's plan, sir. God willing, tomorrow we will decide this case, Friday the 4th after Friday at around 14.00 WIB, OK?

According to Fazhal, the court previously experienced a temporary closure for 4 days due to the spread of COVID-19.

Previously, Acting KPK Spokesperson Ali Fikri said the KPK was optimistic that the evidence presented by the Public Prosecution Team (JPU) could give the panel of judges confidence so that the actions of Angin Prayitino Aji and Dadan Ramdani could be found guilty.

"KPK hopes that the panel of judges can decide as demanded by the Aksa Public Prosecutor's Team because we understand that the paradigm of handling corruption as an 'extra ordinary' crime is not only a matter of law enforcement for the sake of justice and is able to provide a deterrent effect to prevent similar acts from happening again," said Ali. In this case, Angin Prayitno Aji was sentenced to 9 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 500 million, subsidiary to 6 months in prison.

Meanwhile, Dadan Ramdani was sentenced to 6 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 350 million, subsidiary to 5 months in prison.

Both of them are also required to pay compensation of Rp. 3.375 billion and Singapore dollar 1.095 million, which is calculated at the 2019 exchange rate, which is Rp. 10,227 per Singapore dollar, with a subsidiary of 3 years in prison.

In this case, Angin Prayitno Aji and Dadan Ramdani were charged with receiving a total of Rp15 billion and S$4 million (approximately Rp42.17 billion) related to three tax audits.

First, bribes worth Rp. 15 billion, allegedly from two tax consultants at PT Gunung Madu Plantations, namely Aulia Imran Magribi and Ryan Ahmad Ronas related to the tax audit of PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP) for the 2016 fiscal year. Another Rp7.5 billion for the inspection team.

Second, from the attorney of Bank Pan Indonesia (Panin) Veronika Lindawati regarding the tax audit of PT Bank Pan Indonesia, Tbk (Bank Panin) for the 2016 fiscal year of 500 thousand Singapore dollars or equivalent to Rp. 5 billion from a commitment of Rp. 25 billion.

The three bribes amounted to 3.5 million Singapore dollars or the equivalent of IDR 35 billion from tax consultant PT Jhonlin Baratama Agus Susetyo worth related to the examination of PT Jhonlin Baratama (JB) for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years.

Of the Rp35 billion, Angin and Dadan received 1.75 million Singapore dollars or Rp17.5 billion, while the rest received by the inspection team, namely Wawan Ridwan, Alfred Simanjuntak, Yulmanizar and Febrian, each with a total of 437,500 Singapore dollars.