Don't Give Up! KPK Continues To Find Evidence Rafael Square Receives Bribes

Rafael Alun Trisambodo At The KPK/DOK PHOTO building: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) suspects that former officials of the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) Rafael Alun Trisambodo did not only receive gratuities and money laundering. Investigators are now looking for evidence of alleged receipt of bribes from other parties.

"We are currently investigating (the alleged receipt of bribes, ed)," Acting Deputy for Enforcement and Execution Asep Guntur told VOI, Saturday, June 3.

He did not want to specify his findings. Asep asked the public to be patient waiting for developments from the team at work.

Asep previously said that investigators were looking for other corruption allegations committed by Rafael. "We have to prove it as well, apart from gratification, whether there are other corruption cases, such as bribery. Is there a bribe there," he told reporters on Thursday, May 11.

This allegation is being sought by the anti-corruption commission because it is confident that the gratification case against Rafael can continue to grow. For example, the alleged bribery and gratification that ensnared the inactive Papua Governor, Lukas Enembe.

"(The case of Lukas Enembe, ed) initially was only Rp. 1 billion in bribes. But here it continues to grow to reach tens of billions," he said.

Rafael is suspected of having received gratuities of 90,000 US dollars from several taxpayers through his company, PT Artha Mega Ekadhana (AME). This acceptance has occurred since 2011 when he served as Head of Audit, Investigation, and Tax Collection at the Regional Office of the Directorate General of Taxes East Java 1.

Rafael's number of gratuities can still increase because investigators are still continuing to investigate. Given that the company has handled many clients who have difficulty reporting tax books.

Next, the KPK again named Rafael as a suspect in the alleged crime of money laundering (TPPU). He is suspected of diverting or disguising the hot money he received.

In this development, investigators confiscated a number of Rafael's assets. Among them are Toyota Camry and Land Cruiser cars, big motorbikes of the Triumph 1,200 CC type to rented buildings in Meruya, West Jakarta and boarding houses in Blok M, South Jakarta.