JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is investigating the alleged special intervention carried out by 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. Both are suspects in the 2016 and 2017 tax audit bribery cases.
Acting KPK Spokesperson for Enforcement, Ali Fikri, said that this investigation was carried out by summoning the Civil Servant (PNS) of the Directorate General of Taxes, Atik Jauhari on Wednesday, August 18 yesterday.
"Atik Jauhari's knowledge of, among other things, related to tax audits from PT GMP (Gunung Madu Plantations), PT BPI Tbk (Bank PAN Indonesia) and PT. JB (Jhonlin Baratama) suspected of special intervention by suspects APA and DR," said Ali to journalists, Thursday, August 19.
In addition, the KPK also examined a tax consultant named Aulia Imran. He was examined to obtain information related to the tax calculation process of PT Gunung Madu Plantations which was suspected of being manipulated.
Furthermore, the KPK continued to investigate this case by summoning a number of witnesses today or Thursday, August 19 to complete the files belonging to Angin Prayitno Aji et al. Those who were called were tax consultants named Veronika Lindawati and Agus Susetyo.
In this case, the KPK named two officials at the Directorate General of Taxes as suspects, namely 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.
In addition, the KPK has also named four other suspects in this alleged bribery. 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.
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