Tax office worker may get 3 months

Tax office worker may get 3 months

JAKARTA (JP): The prosecution asked the South Jakarta District Court yesterday to sentence an employee of the Directorate of Property Tax to three months imprisonment for alleged land fraud.

Prosecutor Usman said that the defendant, Arief S., 46, had made out a bogus receipt for the fictitious sale of a 70-square- meter plot of land to his neighbor, Abdul Muthalib. According to the phony receipt, Arief paid Rp 3,250,000 for the land, the prosecution alleged.

The defendant owns a 240-sq. m plot adjacent to Muthalib's.

Using the fake receipt, the defendant altered the title deed to the land (girik) from 240 sq. m to 310 sq. m, the prosecutor added.

Abdul Muthalib earlier testified that he had never sold his plot to anybody, the prosecutor said.

Usman added that police had confirmed that both the receipt and the title deed were false.

Presiding Judge Dorris A.A. Taulo adjourned the hearing to Dec. 18.(29)