Persecuting Whistleblowers
The Money Laundering Law should not be used against a person who leaked a possible case of tax fraud by a company owned by Sukanto Tanoto. Was it used to justify a long and hard sentence?
August 28, 2007
YET another legal tragedy occurred last week. A man who reported a crime received a severe sentence, while the people who were reported to have committed the crime are still free. Vincentius Amin Sutanto, former financial controller of the Asian Agri Group (AAG), was sentenced to 11 years in jail, while nothing has been revealed about the pile of documents that indicates tax fraud being committed by the company he worked for.
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