Asian Agri’s Path to Court
The Tax Office chooses to take the Asian Agri Group fraud case to court rather than resolve it by means of a fine. Police could probe it as a money-laundering crime.
November 6, 2007
OVER 1,000 boxes of documents are now kept in a secret and closely guarded place, not only in the Directorate General for Taxation in Jalan Gatot Subroto, Jakarta, but also at a number of places in Medan. “It’s highly classified and dangerous if known by an unauthorized person,” said the Tax Directorate General’s intelligence and investigation chief, Mochammad Tjiptardjo, Wednesday last week to Tempo.
Naturally Tjiptardjo is apprehensiv
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