TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Pertamina CEO Dwi Soetjipto denies the company is using law firm service Mossack Fonseca to make the offshore company free from taxes. Dwi said he has asked Mossack to clarify the matter since last week.
“We feel (the offshore company) is not on the list. We are trying to clarify it by checking there (Mossack Fonseca). It's possible that our documents are not complete,” Dwi said at the Parliament building on Tuesday, Apr 12.
Dwi said that based on an inspection from within Pertamina, not one document is related with Mossack firm, and also documents from Pertamina subsidiaries abroad.
Pertamina is now waiting for a clarification result and has asked Pertamina to check the accusations that are included in the written document. “We are also looking for it,” said Dwi.
Previously, Pertamina spokesperson Wianda Pusponegoro has also declined the document and said that Pertamina is an obidient taxpayer with the largest payment in Indonesia. “We paid Rp72.5 trillion in 2015 and Rp65 trillion in 2014,” said Wianda.
Some 11.5 million Mossack documents leaked was investigated by 370 journalists from 76 countries joined in The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since a year ago.
Tempo is the only Indonesian media incorporated in the cross-country collaboration. The leak was published simultaneously by hundreds of medias throughout the globe beginning Monday, April 4, 2016.
Tempo cited at least 899 individuals and Indonesian companies listed in the document. Until now, Tempo has yet to find a document in Panama Papers that indicates Pertamina as client of Mossack Fonseca.
ROBBY IRFANY
Editor's Note: The last paragraph of this news article is corrected on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 20.57 Western Indonesia Time as it contained few mistakes. The part saying that PT Pertamina and PT Energi Mega Persada were included in Panama Papers is inaccurate. We apologize for the mistake.
