KPK Detains 2 Tax Consultants Who Gave The Wind Bribery, Former Tax Officer, Angin Prayitno Et Al

Detention of two PT GMP tax consultants at the KPK / YouTube KPK RI

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has detained Aulia Imran Maghribi and Ryan Ahmad Ronas. Both are tax consultants representing PT Gunung Madu Plantations.

Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Alexander Marwata said that the detention of Aulia and Ryan was carried out from today or Thursday, February 17 to March 8.

The detention was carried out to speed up the process of investigating allegations of bribery in tax administration which had previously ensnared former officials of the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance.

They are the former Director of Audit and Collection at the Directorate General of Taxes, Angin Prayitno; former Head of the Sub-directorate of Audit Cooperation and Support at the Directorate General of Taxes, Dadan Ramdani.

Then the former Supervisor of the Tax Auditor Team at the Directorate of Audit and Collection at the Directorate General of Taxes, Wawan Ridwan; and former Head of the Examination Team at the Directorate of Audit and Collection at the Directorate General of Taxes, Alfred Simanjuntak.

"To speed up the investigation process, the investigative team made efforts to forcefully detain the suspects for each of them for the next 20 days," Alexander said in a press conference broadcast on the Indonesian KPK YouTube, Thursday, February 17.

In this case, Aulia and Ryan who are tax consultants from PT Gunung Madu Plantations held a meeting with Wawan Ridwan, Alfred Simanjuntak, and the tax audit team from the Directorate General of Taxes in October 2017. This was done to discuss the findings of tax payments.

From these findings, Aulia and Ryan asked that PT GMP's tax obligations be engineered or reduced. In the process they offered money to Wawan and his team.

"To realize the money offer, several meetings were held, including at the Central Directorate General of Taxes' office in South Jakarta," said Alexander.

There is also the money prepared by the two of them amounting to around Rp. 30 billion as an all-in. Alexander said the money came from the company PT GMP as fees for tax inspectors and structural officials at the Central Directorate General of Taxes.

"The special nominal was given to Wawan Ridwan and his team and then forwarded to Angin Prayitno Aji as Director General of Taxes' Audit and Collection and Dadan Ramdani as Head of Sub-Directorate of Cooperation and Audit Support of the Director General of Taxes, estimated to be around Rp. 15 billion," he said.

After the request was realized, the money worth Rp. 15 billion was then handed over in cash in one area in South Jakarta.

As a result of their actions, Aulia and Ryan were then suspected of violating Article 5 paragraph (1) letter a or Article 5 paragraph (1) letter b of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to the Law. Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.