Dewi Sukarno faces tax penalties<\/p>\n
Associated Press, Tokyo<\/p>\n
Japanese tax officials have ordered Indonesia's former first lady
\nto pay taxes on 130 million yen (US$1.1 million) in income she
\nallegedly failed to report, newspapers said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Tax investigators discovered that Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno, the
\nJapanese widow of Indonesia's founding President Sukarno, failed
\nto report income she earned from 1999 to 2001, the Nihon Keizai
\nnewspaper and several other media reports said.<\/p>\n
The reports said she owed 50 million yen ($430,000) in taxes.<\/p>\n
Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau spokeswoman Yuka Sunami refused
\nto confirm the reports, citing privacy reasons.<\/p>\n
The Nihon Keizai said the tax bureau concluded that Dewi
\ndeliberately hid her earnings from speeches, parties and other
\nevents, while reporting her private travel and living expenses as
\ntax deductible office-related expenses.<\/p>\n
Her Tokyo-based office was also suspected of having evaded
\ntaxable sales income, Kyodo News agency reported.<\/p>\n
A representative for her office, Yasuo Asakura, declined to
\ncomment on the charges. He said Dewi, currently in Europe, was
\nnot available for comment.<\/p>\n
Dewi is a former Japanese showgirl who became the Indonesian
\nleader's fourth wife and accompanied him in the days before his
\ndeath in 1970. Now in her 60s, she is a television celebrity in
\nJapan - where she is known as Madame Dewi - and regularly appears
\non talk shows.<\/p>",
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