KPK Opens Opportunity To Name Corporate Suspects In The Directorate General Of Taxes Bribery Case

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has opened an opportunity to identify corporate suspects in the 2016 and 2017 tax audit bribery cases at the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance.

This opportunity is open because the KPK is still investigating the alleged bribery that has ensnared the Director of Audit and Collection at the 2016-2019 Directorate General of Taxes Angin Prayitno Aji and the Head of the Sub-directorate of Cooperation and Audit Support of the Directorate General of Taxes Dadan Ramdani.

"If it is indicated that this is part of the bribery from the company that instructs him, it means that it is possible for him to be later included (as a corporate suspect, ed)," said KPK Deputy Chair Nurul Ghufron in a press conference broadcast on the KPK RI YouTube, Friday, August 13.

He said there were three companies suspected of being involved in this case, namely PT Gunung Madu Plantations, PT Bank Panin Indonesia, and PT Jhonlin Baratama. However, at this time, the KPK has only named this corporate tax consultant as a suspect.

"Because sometimes it's like this, I'm sorry, I'm a tax consultant, for example, I can order from a company 'I just ask for the lowest', about the method, the way the tax consultant communicates with the tax employee, some are right, some are not," said Ghufron .

The KPK, he continued, did not hesitate to assign suspects to the three companies if there was specific evidence. The KPK stressed that it would not indiscriminately determine the parties involved in this corruption case.

"KPK will explore all of it. If indeed, from the perspective of this perpetrator, he is part of a corporate actor, not only the perpetrator himself as a person, then it is possible," said Ghufron.

As previously reported, the KPK has also named four other suspects in this case. They are three tax consultants, namely Ryan Ahmad Ronas, Aulia Imran Maghribi, and Agus Susetyo, and a tax attorney, Veronika Lindawati.

In this case, Angin and Dadan are suspected of having received money three times in 2018-2019. In January-February 2018 there was a cash receipt of Rp. 15 billion which 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 which was submitted by Veronika Lindawati as a representative of PT BPI. This figure is part of the commitment that has been approved, which is Rp. 25 billion.

The last money received occurred in July-September 2019. This money was received from a representative of PT Jhonlin Baratama, namely Agung Susetyo, worth 3 million Singapore dollars.