After Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison, KPK Snags Former Director General Of Taxes, Angin Prayitno With Articles Of Money Laundering

Former Director of Inspection and Collection of the Directorate General of Taxes, Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) Angin Prayitno Aji/Antara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named the former Director of Inspection and Collection of the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) Angin Prayitno Aji as a suspect in the crime of money laundering (TPPU). Investigators suspect he hid assets he obtained from bribes.

"After finding sufficient preliminary evidence, the KPK has again named APA as a suspect in relation to the alleged criminal act of ML," said Acting Spokesperson for the KPK for Enforcement, Ali Fikri in a written statement, Tuesday, February 15.

Ali said the determination was the development of the 2016-2017 tax management bribery case at the Ministry of Finance's Directorate General of Taxes.

"The Investigative Team strongly suspects that the suspect APA has intentionally hidden and disguised the origin of his assets, which are suspected to be the proceeds of criminal acts of corruption," he said.

Furthermore, the public is asked to be patient while waiting for this case to be investigated. Investigators, continued Ali, are currently working on collecting evidence.

"In order to complete the evidence that the KPK has, currently the collection of evidence is still ongoing. Developments will be informed," he said. As previously reported, Angin Prayitno Aji was sentenced to 9 years in prison plus a fine of Rp. Meanwhile, his colleague, Dadan Ramdani, was sentenced to 6 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 300 million, subsidiary to 3 months in prison.

In addition, both of them are required to pay compensation in the amount of IDR 3.375 billion and 1.095 million Singapore dollars respectively, which is calculated using the 2019 Bank Indonesia Singapore dollar middle exchange rate, which is IDR 10,227 per Singapore dollar no later than 1 month after the decision is final and binding. . Failure to do so will result in an additional 2 years imprisonment.

The verdicts and penalties were imposed because they accepted bribes to manipulate the results of the three tax audits, namely on taxpayers PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP) for the 2016 fiscal year, PT Panin Bank taxpayers for the 2016 fiscal year, and PT Jhonlin Baratama (JB) for the 2016 fiscal year. 2016 and 2017 taxes.