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        "id": 1896975,
        "msgid": "ntb-prosecutors-office-requests-pt-gne-tax-data-from-finance-ministry-for-investigation-1785743676",
        "date": "2026-08-03 14:23:27",
        "title": "NTB Prosecutor's Office Requests PT GNE Tax Data from Finance Ministry for Investigation",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Legal",
        "summary": "The Nusa Tenggara Barat High Prosecutor's Office has requested tax data for regional company PT Gerbang NTB Emas from the Ministry of Finance as part of a corruption investigation. The inquiry focuses on a cooperation agreement with PT Berkah Air Laut in the Gili Islands, with auditors currently calculating state losses. The case involves alleged financial mismanagement, including the collateralisation of government-invested assets that still carry outstanding debt.",
        "content": "<p>The Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) High Prosecutor\u2019s Office has requested\ntax data for PT Gerbang NTB Emas (GNE) from the Ministry of Finance as\npart of an investigation into alleged corruption within the regional\ncompany. Assistant for Special Crimes Muh. Zulkifli Said stated in\nMataram on Monday that the request aims to complete the case file for\nthe calculation of state financial losses. The tax data request is\nrelated to the cooperation between PT GNE and PT Berkah Air Laut (BAL)\nin Gili Trawangan and Gili Meno. Once the tax data is obtained,\ninvestigators will submit it to the NTB Representative Office of the\nFinancial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP), which is currently\nauditing the state losses in the case. Zulkifli emphasised that the\ninvestigation is ongoing and no suspects have been named, as\ninvestigators are still gathering evidence, including the state loss\naudit results. In a separate matter, former PT GNE Director for the\n2019\u20132024 period, Samsul Hadi, and PT BAL Director William John Matheson\nhave been convicted in a water pollution case with legally binding\nrulings. The cooperation was originally intended for seawater\ndesalination, but PT BAL was found to have supplied clean water through\ngroundwater drilling, violating the agreement. In July 2025, the Supreme\nCourt rejected the cassation appeals, finalising the High Court\u2019s\ndecision, though William John Matheson remains a fugitive. The\ncorruption investigation has involved examining officials from\nprovincial and district governments, as well as PT GNE and PT BAL\nexecutives. Investigators have also sought expert opinions from the\nIndonesian Drinking Water Companies Association and seized documents\nduring searches at the NTB Regional Secretariat\u2019s Economic Bureau and PT\nGNE\u2019s office in May 2025. The probe is tracing alleged corruption in the\nmanagement of PT GNE\u2019s assets and finances, which originate from\nregional government capital injections, including land and buildings\nthat have been used as collateral for bank loans and still carry\noutstanding debt. PT GNE management previously stated that the remaining\ndebt from the asset collateralisation stems from the leadership period\nof former director Samsul Hadi, who has been summoned multiple times by\ninvestigators to provide testimony.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/ntb-prosecutors-office-requests-pt-gne-tax-data-from-finance-ministry-for-investigation-1785743676",
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