Former Garuda Siwi Widi Flight Attendant Claims To Receive Money From Son Of Former Director General Of Taxes, KPK Will Analyze

Former Garuda Siwi Sidi flight attendant and his attorney (Rizki Adytia Pramana/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will analyze the testimony of former Garuda Indonesia flight attendant Siwi Widi alias Siwi Sidi at trial. He admitted to receiving and using Rp647 million from the son of former Director General of Taxes Wawan Ridwan, Muhammad Farsha Kautsar.

"All the facts of the trial will be analyzed first by the team of prosecutors," said Acting Spokesperson for the KPK for Enforcement, Ali Fikri, to reporters in a written statement, Wednesday, May 11.

The KPK, continued Ali, did not want to rush to determine Siwi Widi's legal status. This is because the legal facts revealed at the trial need to be strengthened by two pieces of evidence.

The public was asked to wait for the anti-corruption commission to follow up on the confession.

"As long as based on this trial process it turns out that legal facts are obtained based on at least two valid pieces of evidence, of course this case can be developed further," he said.

"We are waiting for developments," added Ali. It was previously reported that Muhammad Farsha Kautsar was revealed to have given Rp647.85 million to Siwi Widi Purwanti at trial. Furthermore, the money is used to meet personal needs.

"There was a transfer from Farsha's account from April 2019 to July 2019," said Siwi Widi at the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor) as reported by Antara, Tuesday, May 10.

Siwi became a witness for former Head of Registration, Extensification, and Appraisal of the Regional Office of the Directorate General of Taxes of South, West, and Southeast Sulawesi (Sulselbartra) Wawan Ridwan who was charged with accepting bribes, receiving gratuities, and committing money laundering.

"At that time I became a close friend of Farsha. Farsha claimed to be 28 years old, as a businessman, not a student. He tried to approach me and there was a chat where he tried to get my attention by paying me something," said Siwi.

Siwi admitted that he received a total money transfer of IDR 647.85 million. He then used the money for various personal interests, including buying Gucci-branded jackets and beauty treatments.

For information, Siwi in the indictment is said to have received a transfer of IDR 647,850,000 from April 8, 2019 to July 23, 2019, whose money came from Wawan Ridwan.

Meanwhile, Wawan Ridwan, who was an Intermediate Tax Auditor at the Directorate of Audit and Collection for the 2014 - 2019 period, received orders from Angin Prayitno through Dadan Ramdani to get a fee from the audited taxpayers.

The money was divided by 50 percent for structural officials consisting of the Director and Head of the Sub-Directorate, while 50 percent for the inspection team with Wawan's distribution to get a total of 606,250 Singapore dollars or around Rp6.47 billion.