2 Tax Consultants Sentenced To 2.5 And 3.5 Years In Prison

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JAKARTA - Two tax consultants, namely Aulia Imran Magribi and Ryan Ahmad Ronas were sentenced to 2.5 years and 3.5 years in prison respectively for bribing a number of inspectors at the Directorate General of Taxes worth Rp. 13.5 billion to manipulate the tax calculation results of PT Gunung Honey Plantations (GMP).

"Declaring that defendant I Aulia Imran Maghribi and Defendant II Ryan Ahmad Ronas have been legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act together with corruption as in the first alternative indictment of the public prosecutor," said chairman of the panel of judges Fazhal Hendri at the Corruption Crime Court ( Corruption Crimes) Jakarta was reported by ANTARA, Friday, August 5.

Both were proven based on the first indictment, namely Article 5 paragraph 1 letter a of Law No. 31 of 1999 as amended by Law No. 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.

Sentencing defendant I Aulia Imran Maghribi with a prison sentence of 2 years and 6 months and defendant II Ryan Ahmad Ronas with a prison term of 3 years and 6 months a fine of Rp. imprisonment for 3 months," added Judge Fazhal.

The verdict is lower than the demands of the KPK Public Prosecutor (JPU) who demanded that Aulia Imran Maghribi be sentenced to 3 years in prison and a fine of IDR 200 million subsidiary 6 months in prison while Ryan Ahmad Ronas was sentenced to 4 years in prison and a fine of IDR 200 million subsidiary 6 months confinement.

Both were also sentenced to pay additional criminal money.

Imposing additional penalties for Defendants I and Defendant II in the form of payment of replacement money each in the amount of Rp. cover the replacement money. In the event that the defendants do not have sufficient assets to pay the replacement money, they are sentenced to 6 months in prison, "said the judge.

There are a number of aggravating things in the defendant's actions.

"The actions of the defendants did not help the government's program in eradicating corruption, the defendants did not admit their guilt, the defendants received a fee from PT GMP's tax administration of Rp 1.5 billion," added the judge.

While mitigating things in their actions are being polite in court, having never been convicted in other cases, having family responsibilities, children who still need attention.

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 Head of the Tax Auditor Team, Yulmanizar and Febrian as the Tax Auditor Team at the Directorate General of Tax Audit and Collection.

The defendants also jointly 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, so that both of them were deemed worthy of being charged with an additional criminal payment of Rp. 750 million each.

In this case, Angin Prayitno made a policy to benefit from tax audits to taxpayers and then informed the "supervisors" of the Tax Auditor 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 audit team's share. Tax.

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 the tax value of PT GMP in the 2016 fiscal year and obtained Rp.

To realize the agreement, GM of 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.