Director admits setting up bogus company<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A company director admitted to a court yesterday
\nthat he established bogus firms which were later implicated in a
\ntax evasion case.<\/p>\n
"I borrowed Sumarno's identification card to institute firms
\nas ordered by my father," Dominikus Setia Ritaka, taking the
\nwitness stand in the trial of his father, Raden Ign. Suarisman,
\ntold the Central Jakarta district court.<\/p>\n
According to Dominik, his father also installed him as a
\ndirector of PT Sandang Tirta Bening Raya, whose activities and
\noperations Dominik knew nothing about.<\/p>\n
Dominik's testimony was not conducted under oath but suspect
\nSuarisman did not have any objections to it.<\/p>\n
Four businessmen including Suarisman are being tried for
\nmasterminding and establishing companies to publish bogus value-
\nadded tax invoices sold only at ten percent of their face-value
\nbetween 1993 and 1995, thereby defrauding the government of Rp
\n58,3 billion.<\/p>\n
The three other suspects, Hartono, Baharuddin Umar and Tony
\nEffendy were being tried in two separate hearings on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
"I never asked my father about anything he ordered me to do, I
\nsigned many blank VAT invoices and acted as a company director,"
\nDominik timidly told the court, adding that he was paid Rp
\n250,000 every month.<\/p>\n
Sumarno, also taking the witness stand, told the court that as
\nhe was allured by the seemingly easy Rp 500,000 a month fee
\nacquired by allowing his name to be used by suspect Suarisman to
\nestablish a firm he knew nothing about for three months.<\/p>\n
"My parent's address was used as the firm's address," Sumarno
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The four suspects allegedly established a total of 31 bogus
\ncompanies.<\/p>\n
Six other witnesses, all entrepreneurs who bought the false
\nvalue-added tax invoices, told the court that they had paid the
\nfull amount of the value-added tax as was written on the
\ninvoices.<\/p>\n
The entrepreneurs were first notified that there had been
\nproblems with their VAT invoices following an audit by the Tax
\nDirectorate. All entrepreneurs testified that they did not know
\nanything about the problematic VAT invoices until the
\nnotification. (14)<\/p>",
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