Corruption Eradication Commission Investigates Role of 3 Companies in Tax Employee Drag Case News – 2 hours ago

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) revealed that it would investigate the role of corporations in the tax engineering bribery case which dragged the names of 3 companies, PT Jhonlin Baratama, PT Bank Panin, and PT Gunung Madu Plantations. The Corruption Eradication Commission doubts that the company did not play a role in bribery to manipulate the tax audit.

“It is impossible for a tax consultant to give money with his own money,” said KPK Deputy Chairman Alexander Marwata at a press conference at his office, Jakarta, Thursday (9/11/2023).

Alex said investigators would investigate the role of these companies, including the alleged role of company management in this case. “Whether the company involved or later represented by the tax consultant will be made a suspect, including the management, of course the evidence obtained from investigators will be looked at. The tax consultant works in the interests of the company,” said Alex.

The tax corruption case that Alex is referring to is a tax engineering bribery case that has been investigated for the first time since 2021.

This case involved the names of officials from the Directorate General of Taxes, including former Director of Audit and Collection at the Directorate General of Taxes, Angin Prayitno Aji; Head of Sub-Directorate for Cooperation and Audit Support at the Directorate General of Taxes Dadan Ramdani; Tax Audit Team Supervisor Wawan Ridwan; Head of the Tax Audit Team, Alfred Simanjuntak.

Apart from tax officials, this case also involved the names of company tax consultants. Among them, two PT Gunung Madu tax consultants Ryan Ahmad Ronas and Aulia Imran Maghribi; one PT Jhonlin tax consultant, Agus Susetyo; and taxpayer attorney PT Bank Panin Veronika Lindawati.

In this case, the tax consultants were proven to have given bribes worth a total of tens of billions of Rupiah to Angin et al to manipulate the tax audit of the company they represented. Angin and the tax consultants have been convicted in court, but the role of the company has not been touched by the KPK.

Later, as a result of the development of this case, the Corruption Eradication Committee named 2 new suspects who were members of the tax inspection team. The two are Yulmanizar and Febrian.

Alexander Marwata said that as members of the tax inspection team, Yulmanizar and Febrian were suspected of receiving indirect orders and directions from Angin et al to manipulate the calculation of the tax payment obligations of 3 companies. The three companies whose tax calculations were allegedly doctored were PT Jhonlin, PT Bank Panin and PT Gunung Madu for the 2016 tax year.

“Based on the tax calculation conditions for the 3 taxpayers, it is suspected that there was a receipt of Rp. 15 billion and Sin$ 4 million,” said Alex.

Apart from that, Yulmanizar and Febrian are suspected of also receiving gratuities from several other taxpayers with initial proof of money amounting to billions of Rupiah. “In-depth research is still being carried out,” he said.

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(dce)