Ministry Of Finance To Check Again Companies Whose Taxes Are Treated By Angin Prayitno, Suspected Of Bribery

Ministry of Finance Directorate General of Taxation Building (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) will re-examine the potential for tax revenue from companies caught in bribery cases at the Tax Directorate General (Ditjen). In this recount effort, the Ministry of Finance will form a team.

"The taxpayers involved in the bribery case are being re-examined to see if there are potential revenues that belong to the state that have not been deposited into the state treasury," said Inspector General of the Ministry of Finance Sumiyati at a press conference at the Red and White KPK building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Tuesday, May 4th.

There are also three taxpayers who will be re-examined, namely PT Jhonlin Baratama, PT Bank PAN Indonesia, and PT Gunung Madu Plantation.

This team, continued Sumiyati, will involve a number of tax audit functional officials from the Directorate General of Taxes and internal compliance elements from the Ministry of Finance.

"So the joint team, then in the implementation of this examination the KPK will also provide the necessary information," he said.

Sumiyati also reminded taxpayers to increase their compliance in paying their taxes. Payment, he said, must be made according to the rules.

This is because the taxes paid by the public will later be used by all parties.

"Taxes paid to the state treasury will be used to finance our state budget. One of them is to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, to pay for the COVID-19 vaccine for all Indonesian people," he said.

Previously reported, the KPK 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.

In addition, 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.

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

In this case, Angin together with Dadan are suspected of receiving money three times in 2018-2019. In January-February 2018, there was a receipt of Rp. 15 billion in cash which was submitted 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 money was in July-September 2019. This money was received from the representative of PT Jhonlin Baratama, namely Agung Susetyo worth 3 million Singapore dollars.