Spread Billions Of Taxes In Bribes, 2 Consultants Sued 3 And 4 Years In Prison

Two defendants from tax consultant PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP) Aulia Imran Maghribi (right) and Ryan Ahmad Ronas (second left) undergo trial for charges / Via ANTARA

JAKARTA - Two tax consultants named Aulia Imran Magribi and Ryan Ahmad Ronas were sentenced to 3 years and 4 years in prison, respectively, for allegedly bribing a number of inspectors at the Directorate General of Taxes worth Rp. 13.5 billion. The bribe money was used to manipulate the tax calculation results of PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP).

"So that the panel of judges declares Defendant I Aulia Imran Magribi and Defendant II Ryan Ahmad Ronas proven legally and convincingly according to the law guilty of jointly committing a crime of corruption as the first alternative indictment," said KPK public prosecutor (JPU) Asri Irwan at the Corruption Court. Corruption Crimes (Tipikor) Jakarta, Antara, Tuesday, July 26.

Aulia Imran Magribi is the recipient of a special power of attorney for the taxpayers of PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP) and a tax consultant for Foresight Consulting, while Ryan Ahmad Ronas is a tax consultant for Foresight Consulting.

Both were judged to have committed acts based on Article 5 paragraph (1) letter a of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 of the 1st Criminal Code.

Prosecutor Asri asked the panel of judges to sentence Aulia Imran Maghribi to imprisonment for 3 years and a fine of Rp. 200 million, subsidiary to imprisonment for 6 months.

In addition, sentenced Ryan Ahmad Ronas to imprisonment for 4 years and a fine of Rp. 200 million, subsidiary to imprisonment for 6 months.

In addition, burdening the defendants to pay additional criminal money of Rp. 750 million each to the state with the stipulation that if within 1 month after the court's decision obtains permanent legal force, the defendant does not pay, his assets can be confiscated by the prosecutor and auctioned off to cover the replacement money. .

"In the event that the defendants do not have sufficient assets to pay the replacement money, they will be sentenced to 1 year in prison," added prosecutor Asri.

In his indictment, the KPK prosecutor stated that Aulia and Ryan were proven to have given bribes amounting to Rp. 13.5 billion to Angin Prayitno Aji as Director of Audit and Collection of the Directorate General of Taxes, Dadan Ramdani as Head of Sub-Directorate of Tax Audit Cooperation and Support, Wawan Ridwan as supervisor of the tax audit team, Alfred Simanjuntak as the Head of the Tax Auditor Team, Yulmanizar and Febrian as the Tax Auditor Team at the Directorate General of Tax Audit and Collection.

"That then the defendants also received a share of 10 percent of the fee money from PT GMP for the Tax Auditor Team and structural officials, which amounted to Rp. 1.5 billion," added the prosecutor.

In this case, Angin Prayitno made a policy to benefit from tax audits to taxpayers and then notified the supervisors of the tax audit team that when reporting the results of the audit they also reported fees for structural officials (Director and Head of Sub-Directorate) as well as for the team's share.

The distribution is 50 percent for structural officials consisting of the Director and Head of the Sub-Directorate, while 50 percent is for the inspection team.

In October 2018, Yulmanizar, Febrian, Alfred Simanjuntak and Wawan Ridwan made a risk analysis of PT GMP's taxpayers for the 2016 fiscal year with the aim of seeking tax potential from taxpayers as well as seeking personal gain. From the risk analysis, PT GMP's 2016 tax potential is IDR 5,059,683,828.

In December 2017, Yulmanizar as the person in charge (PIC) met with tax consultants from Foresight Consultants Ryan Ahmad Ronas and Aulia Imran Magribi. During the meeting, Ryan asked for assistance in engineering the tax value to be issued by the Director General of Taxes on the examination of PT GMP.

After the meeting, Yulmanizar and Febrian calculated PT GMP's tax value for the 2016 fiscal year and it was Rp19,821,605,943.51, while for the audit fee and tax structure it was Rp15 billion.

To realize the agreement, GM PT GMP Lim Poh Ching then ordered his subordinates to issue a company check on January 22, 2018 for Rp. 15 billion, which was recorded as a form of social assistance, even though the assistance was fictitious.

The money amounting to Rp15 billion was then handed over by Aulia to Yulmaniar at the Kartika Chandra Hotel in January 2018. Wawan Ridwan on the orders of Angin then exchanged the money in Singapore dollar denominations.

After the money was exchanged in Singapore dollars, it turned out that the money brought was only Rp. 13.2 billion, so it was still less than Rp. 1.8 billion. Aulia Imran and Ryan Ahmad only gave an additional Rp. 300 million, while the remaining Rp. 1.5 billion was a fee for Aulia Imran and Ryan Ahmad.