Alleged Tax Corruption Case, 2 Civil Servants Directorate General Of Taxes Are Being Intercepted By Immigration Officials For 6 Months

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JAKARTA - The Directorate General of Immigration has taken precautions against traveling abroad for two state civil servants (ASN) of the Directorate General of Taxes, Ministry of Finance. This follows an investigation into a corruption case currently being carried out by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

The two civil servants people who were prevented from leaving the country had the initials APA and DR. Apart from the two of them, prevention abroad was also carried out against four other people, namely RAR, AIM, VL, and AS. Prevention is valid for two and six months from February 8 to August 5.

"Two ASN Directorate General of Taxes, Ministry of Finance and four others (prevented, red) at the request of the Corruption Eradication Commission. This prevention is contained in a letter signed by the Director of Supervision and Enforcement of Men Immigration, on February 8, 2021", said the Head of Public Relations and General Affairs. Directorate General of Immigration Arya Pradhana Anggakara in his written statement, Thursday, March 4.

As previously reported, the KPK is investigating a new case related to suspected corruption at the Directorate General (Ditjen) of Taxes, Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu).

The KPK is still closing the meeting for information on the case including the names of the suspects. However, the mode used is the same as other modes of tax bribery, namely bribing certain parties to pay lower taxes than they should.

Meanwhile, in relation to this detention, KPK Deputy Chairman Alexander Marwata confirmed that his party had asked for the prevention of the suspect in the tax-related corruption case even though it had not been officially announced.

"Generally, we prevent each named suspect from leaving the country", said KPK Deputy Chairman Alexander Marwata at the Red and White KPK building, South Jakarta, Thursday, March 4.

Meanwhile, when asked the suspect and when the proposal for prevention was made, Alex did not give an answer. According to him, the announcement of the names involved in the corruption case was not made to prevent investigators from being disturbed in completing their work.

"We did not reveal the names or related companies. So that fellow investigators are not disturbed by the investigation and search for evidence", he said.

"Later on, there will be efforts, especially with the detention, later we will announce the suspect and at the same time we will detain him", he concluded.