THE Tax Directorate General’s statement that five directors of the Asian Agri Group (AAG) have been declared suspects in a tax manipulation case is a big step forward. Four months after the tax investigation team raided the AAG offices in Medan and Jakarta, the public’s fears have been somewhat allayed on the officials’ seriousness in handling the suspected tax fraud case of the plantations owned by tycoon Sukanto Tanoto.

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