The Corruption Eradication Commission Ensures to Arrest Anyone Who Helps Rafael Alun Receive Gratification

Head Of KPK News Section Ali Fikri At KPK Building (Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) ensures that anyone who assists former Director General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) Rafael Alun Trisambodo receives gratuities and money laundering. All facts revealed will be developed.

"The KPK will definitely develop this case further," said Head of the KPK News Section, Ali Fikri, to journalists, Thursday, August 31.

The public is asked to continue monitoring the trial of former Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani's subordinates. Because all charges will be proven by the public prosecutor (JPU).

Including, said Ali, the allegation that Rafael's wife, Ernie Torondek, helped receive the gratification. "Witnesses will be presented including other evidence," he stressed.

As previously reported, Rafael Alun Trisambodo was charged with receiving gratuities amounting to IDR 16.6 billion. The reception was carried out with his wife, Ernie Meike Torondek.

The defendant has committed or participated in several acts that are related in such a way that it must be seen as a continuing act, receiving gratuities, namely receiving a total of IDR 16,644,806,137," said the prosecutor reading out the indictment at the trial at the Central Jakarta District Court, Wednesday, August 30.

In the prosecutor's indictment, Rafael Alun and his wife, who is also the mother of Mario Dandy Satriyo, received gratuities from several companies, including PT Artha Mega Ekadhana (PT ARME), PT Cubes Consulting, PT Cahaya Kalbar and PT Krisna Bali International Cargo. Ernie Meike Torondek is a commissioner for PT ARME, PT Cubes Consulting and PT Bukit Hijau Asri.

"That the Defendant together with Ernie Meike Torondek gradually from May 15 2002 to March 2013 received gratuities in the form of money in the total amount of IDR 16,644,806,137 through PT ARME, PT Cubes Consulting, PT Cahaya Kalbar and PT Krisna Bali International Cargo," said the prosecutor.