FORMER RANKING TAX OFFICIALS ADVISED TO CLARIFY PERSONAL WEALTH

Jakarta, April 10 (ANTARA) - Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force Secretary Denny Indrayana appealed to former high-ranking tax officials to clarify their personal wealth to erase existing public suspicion it had all come from money laundering activity.

Citing an example, Denny said there was public suspicion about the wealth of former Tax Director General Hadi Purnomo, now chairman of the Supreme Audit Board (BPK), which was reported to total Rp38 billion.

"Of the Rp38 billion, Rp36 billion was said to have come from grants. Hadi must clarify the exact source of the grants to allay public suspicion," Denny said here on Saturday during a discussion titled "The Dream of Eradicating Corruption".

Denny said another former high-ranking tax official, Fuad Bawazier, had also claimed most of his wealth had been "grant."
Earlier, the police had charged former official of the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) Bahasyim Assifie with corruption and money laundering.

Jakarta Metropolitan Police spokesman Senior Commissioner Boy Rafli Amar said in his modus operandi the suspect had deposited Rp64 billion in gratification money in accounts of members of his family.

"He had received the money from taxpayers in exchange for his services in overcoming their tax problems and deposited it in the accounts of members of his family," he said.

Based on these findings, the police investigators had charged him with corruption and money laundering.

Boy said the suspect transferred the money to the accounts of his wife, Sri Purwanti, and his daughter, Winda Arum at Bank Negara Indonesia.

He said the police had confiscated materials as evidence they had found during the investigation, including current accounts and money worth Rp64 billion kept in the accounts of Sri Purwanti and Winda Arum.


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