Embezzle Taxes Rp 9.6 Billion, Entrepreneurs From Bekasi Detained By The Prosecutor's Office

The suspect in the M (59) tax crime case was put into a four-wheeled vehicle after being questioned at the Bekasi District Attorney's Office, West Java (ANTARA)

BEKASI - The District Attorney (Kejari) of Bekasi Regency, West Java detained a suspected tax evader with the initials M (59) for a criminal act that caused state losses of Rp9.68 billion. "The suspect was detained for the next 20 days at the Class II A Cikarang Prison starting today," said the Head of Special Crimes (Pidsus) of the Bekasi District Attorney's Office, Barkah Dwi Hatmoko, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, June 8. His party carried out the prosecution's authority by following up on the legal handling of this case through the transfer of files to the Cikarang District Court to then receive a trial schedule. "So this is the tax criminal case that ensnared CV M which is engaged in the field of selling papers with individual suspects, namely brother M as the director of the CV," he said. Hatmoko explained that the construction of this case began with the suspect's intentional action of publishing and or using tax invoices that were not based on actual transactions in the December-March 2020 period. The suspect's actions violated the provisions of the legislation as referred to in Article 39A letter a juncto Article 43 of Law Number 6 of 1983 concerning General Provisions and Tax Procedures as amended by Law Number 7 of 2021 concerning Harmonization of Tax Regulations. "The suspect is threatened with a minimum sentence of two years and a maximum of six years in prison," he said. The Head of the Investigative Team of the Regional Directorate General of Taxes West Java II Kartija said state losses amounted to Rp9.68 billion based on the calculation of transaction amounts amounted to Rp90 billion more as stated in the suspect company expenditure tax. "Today we officially submit one case file referred to the Public Prosecutor of the Bekasi District Attorney," he said. The efforts to handover of the suspect and this evidence were previously preceded by summons to the suspect by his party working with the Coordinator of Supervision of the Polda Metro Jaya.

This law enforcement is also a warning for perpetrators of criminal acts in the field of taxation that the Directorate General of Taxes is supported by the Police and the Prosecutor's Office will continue to enforce law in the field of taxation to secure state revenue in order to fulfill the fulfillment of state financing. "Strict law enforcement applied in this case is expected to produce a deterrent effect for other taxpayers to no longer violate the law in the tax field," he said.