2 Former Officials Of The Directorate General Of Taxes Wind Prayitno-Dadan Ramdani Charged With Accepting IDR 57 Billion In Bribes From 3 Companies

Illustration (Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Two former officials of the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu), Angin Prayitno, and Dadan Ramdani were charged with accepting bribes of IDR 15 billion and SGD 4 million from several parties. The bribe was related to the tax administration of 3 companies.

"Those who commit and participate in committing several acts that must be considered as independent acts so that they constitute several crimes, receive gifts or promises, namely receiving money in total of IDR 15.000.000.000 and SGD 4.000.000 (4 million)," said the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Prosecutor, Destiny Suhan in the trial at the Corruption Court, Jakarta, Wednesday, September 22.

If converted, 4 million Singapore dollars is approximately IDR 42 billion. Thus, the total bribes received by the two defendants reached IDR 57 billion.

In the indictment, the bribe givers came from three companies. Where, the givers include, Veronika Lindawati as the proxy of PT Bank Panin, Agus Susetyo as tax consultant for PT Jhonlin Baratama.

Then, Ryan Ahmad Ronas and Aulia Imran Magribi as tax consultants from PT Gunung Madu Plantations.

In addition, the prosecutor also said that the bribes were given from January 2018 to September 2019.

The bribe was intended for Angin Prasetyo Aji, who at that time served as Director of Audit and Collection at the Directorate General of Taxes, and Dadan Ramdani, former Head of Sub-Head of Cooperation and Audit Support of the Directorate General of Taxes, in order to manipulate the tax calculations of the three companies.

"Manipulating the results of tax calculations on taxpayers PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP) for the 2016 fiscal year, PT BANK PAN Indonesia (PANIN) Tbk taxpayers for the 2016 tax year and PT Jhonlin Baratama (JB) for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years," said the prosecutor.

In accepting bribes and they were the result of tax calculations, the two defendants were assisted by a team of tax examiners at the Directorate General of Taxes' Audit and Collection. They include Wawan Ridwan, Alfred Simanjuntak, Yulmanizar, and Febrian.

Thus, with this series of bribes, the two defendants were charged with violating Article 12 letter a or Article 11 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Juncto Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code Juncto Article 65 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.