A legislator from the Golkar Party says that the Judicial Mafia Taskforce may have played a role in determining former tax officer Gayus H. Tambunan’s sentence, which he deems as being too light.
“Gayus’ confessions after the trial that explained how the taskforce promised he would undergo legal processes ‘safely and comfortably’ obviously shows the taskforce engages in ‘special treatment’,” Bambang Soesatyo said in a text message. “Therefore, it is not impossible that the taskforce had a hand in the light verdict,”
He said that if the taskforce was proven to have conducted such legal interventions, then it should be disbanded.
The legislator from Commission III overseeing legal affairs said that the seven-year sentence handed to Gayus for committing graft was, “Very disappointing…how can someone guilty of tax mafia only be sentenced to seven years in jail while the prosecutors demanded 20 years.”
Gayus mentioned in a press conference held after his trial that the Judicial Mafia Taskforce's head, Denny Indrayana, lured him to return to Indonesia when the two met in Singapore in March last year, by assuring Gayus that he would be “safe and comfortable” during the legal process.
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