Tax officer nabbed for embezzlement

BOGOR: Bogor Police arrested an officer working in the Depok Tax Office for embezzling some Rp 69.1 million paid in tax by a private company, PT Puninar Tekton Asia.

The suspect, Dajat Hidajat, 53, was arrested at his home in Tegal Gundil, Bogor, on suspicion of having stolen the money paid by the private company when he worked with the Bogor Tax Office.

The Bogor Police's chief of detectives Chief Comr. Rastra Gunawan said that they arrested the suspect following a report from the company, which is based in Jakarta.

The police confiscated a fake tax-payment receipt from the suspect.

The company, which produces agricultural products, reported the suspect to the police as it alleged he did not pay the taxes into the bank, thus rendering the company unable to get a title certificate for a land plot it had bought.--JP