KPK Assigns 2 Officials At The Directorate General Of Taxes As Suspects In The Tax Examination Bribery Case

Ilustasi-Gedung KPK (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named two officials at the Directorate General of Taxes as suspects.

The two people are the Director of Audit and Collection at the 2016-2019 Directorate General of Taxes, Angin Prayitno Aji and the Head of the Sub-Directorate for Cooperation and Audit Support at the Directorate General of Taxes Dadan Ramdani.

The determination of the suspect was made after the KPK conducted an examination of 30 witnesses who were suspected of knowing the suspects' actions.

"After collecting information and data and finding sufficient preliminary evidence, the KPK conducted an investigation and raised the status of this case to investigation in February 2021 by naming a suspect," said KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri at a press conference at the Red and White Building of the KPK Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta. , Tuesday, May 4.

The KPK also named four other suspects in the alleged bribery. They are three tax consultants, namely Ryan Ahmad Ronas, Aulia Imran Maghribi, and Agus Susetyo as well as a taxpayer attorney, Veronika Lindawati.

Furthermore, the KPK will detain Angin Prayitno for the next 20 days starting from May 4 to May 23 at the KPK Detention Center for the Red and White House Branch. However, he will first undergo independent isolation at the KPK Rutan Kavling C-1 to prevent transmission of COVID-19.

This case began when Angin was still the Director of Audit and Collection at the Directorate General of Taxes. At that time, together with Dadan Ramdani, the two were suspected of agreeing to, ordering, and accommodating the amount of tax payment obligations according to the wishes of the taxpayer or the party representing it.

"The tax audit is also not based on the applicable tax provisions," said Firli.

Wind and Dadan examined three taxpayers, namely PT Gunung Madu Plantation (PT GMP) for the 2016 fiscal year, PT Bank PAN Indonesia Tbk (PT BPI) for the 2016 tax year, and PT Jhonlin Baratama (PT JB) for the 2016 tax year. and 2017.

"Regarding the results of the intended investigation, APA and DR are suspected of having received a certain amount of money," said the former KPK Deputy for Enforcement.

Firli then explained, in January-February 2018 there was a receipt of Rp15 billion in cash that was handed over by representatives of PT GMP, namely Ryan Ahmad and Aulia Imran.

Furthermore, receipts were also made in mid-2018 in the amount of 500 thousand Singapore dollars submitted by Veronika Lindawati as a representative of PT BPI. This figure is part of the agreed commitment of IDR 25 billion.

The last receipt of the loan took place in July-September 2019. From the representative of PT Jhonlin Baratama, namely Agung Susetyo, both of them received 3 million Singapore dollars.

For their actions, Angin and DR were accused of Article 12 letter a or b or Article 11 of the Corruption Eradication Law, Juncto Article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile, RAR, AIM, VL and AS were suspected of violating Article 5 paragraph (1) letter a or Article 5 paragraph (1) letter b or Article 13 of the Corruption Act in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code.