Angin Prayitno Files Appeal In Tax Management Bribery Case, KPK Is Ready To Face It

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) admits that it is ready to face an appeal made by the former Director of Audit and Collection at the 2016-2019 Directorate General of Taxes, Angin Prayitno Aji.

Angin was sentenced by the Jakarta Corruption Court to nine years in prison for being proven to have received bribes of Rp. 15 billion and S$4 million or around Rp. 42,169,984,851 from taxpayers, together with the former Head of the Sub-Directorate (Kasubdit) of Cooperation and Audit Support of the Directorate General of Taxes in 2016. -2019, Dadan Ramdani.

"The information we received from the Prosecutor's Team has received a notification from the court that the defendant Angin Prayitno A has filed an appeal to the Jakarta High Court," Acting KPK Spokesperson for Enforcement Affairs Ali Fikri told reporters, Tuesday, March 1.

Ali said that the KPK Public Prosecutor (JPU) would immediately prepare a counter memorandum of appeal to refute the objections raised by the defendant. The anti-corruption commission hopes that in the future the panel of judges at the appellate level will reject Angin's appeal.

"We hope that the panel of judges at the appellate level will reject the defendant's legal efforts and decide as demanded by the prosecutor in the case," he said.

As previously reported, Angin Prayitno Aji was sentenced to 9 years in prison plus a fine of Rp. 300 million, subsidiary to 2 months in prison. Meanwhile, Dadan Ramdani was sentenced to 6 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 300 million, subsidiary to 3 months in prison.

In addition, both of them are required to pay compensation in the amount of IDR 3.375 billion and 1.095 million Singapore dollars respectively, which is calculated using the 2019 Bank Indonesia Singapore dollar middle exchange rate, which is IDR 10,227 per Singapore dollar no later than 1 month after the decision is final and binding. . Failure to do so will result in an additional 2 years imprisonment.

The bribes were received to manipulate the results of the three tax audits, namely PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP) for the 2016 tax year, PT Panin Bank for the 2016 tax year, and PT Jhonlin Baratama (JB) for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years.