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National Police 'Pretty Sure' Gayus Left Country
Farouk Arnaz | January 05, 2011


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ChrisH
3:56pm Jan 5, 2011

I think Mr Denny should go into hiding for a while...if he values his life.

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The National Police on Wednesday said it was now "pretty sure" Gayus Tambunan went out of the country under an alias during the time he was supposed to be locked up in prison.

"We are now cooperating with the immigration office and have established a joint investigation team to investigate Gayus's alleged trip, not to Singapore, but to Macau on Sept. 24 to 26 and to Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 30," National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bahrul Alam said.

He added that based on the passport, a copy of which is circulating on the Internet, "we are pretty sure that Gayus went to other countries using his alias, Sony Laksono. We will also summon immigration officers to determine how he could obtain a passport and where this passport was used for."

The photo of the passport was posted by Denny Indrayana, the presidential adviser for legal affairs, on his Twitter account, @dennyindrayana.

In the tweet which linked to the photo, Denny wrote "This is a photo of Gayus [Tambunan] using a wig contained in the passport of 'Sonny Laksono.' It is the same alias Gayus used when watching tennis in Bali."

The passport's photo shows a man who looks very much like the rogue taxman, wearing glasses and sporting a bob-style haircut, when he was photographed in disguise at a tennis tournament in Bali.

The passport lists the man's birthdate as Aug. 17, 1975. Aug. 17 is, perhaps not coincidentally, the day Indonesia celebrates its independence.

The National Police spokesman for general affairs, Chief Comr. Boy Rafli Amar, said it was also possible that immigration officers would be named as suspects if there was evidence that they received bribes from Gayus to issue the passport.

The new saga in the scandal-ridden tax official’s life emerged after the Kompas daily published a letter to the editor on Sunday wherein the author, identified as Devina, claimed to have spotted a man resembling Gayus aboard an AirAsia flight to Singapore.

At the time, Gayus should have been locked up in a cell at the National Police’s Mobile Brigade (Brimob) detention facility in Depok.

In November, Gayus was spotted by a Jakarta Globe photographer at an international tennis tournament in Nusa Dua, Bali. A snapshot showing Gayus in a wig and glasses at the match was first published in this newspaper on Nov. 6. After repeated denials, Gayus admitted that he had left his cell to visit Bali. He said he had regularly paid the warden and guards at the detention facility to be allowed out.