"The police are conducting joint investigation with other offices concerned to deal with the case," the national police`s chief spokesman Senior Commissioner Boy Rafli Amar said here on Friday.
He said the police was cooperating with the Financial Transactions Analysis and Reporting Center (PPATK), the Attorney General Office and the Directorate General of Taxation.
"The joint investigation is done to follow up the tax case while the process of investigation into the case by the police have already been underway," he said.
He said the results of the joint investigation would be synergized with the findings of the offices concerned.
"We hope the coordination would help ease collection of facts relating to alleged irregularities indicated as part of taxation activities handled by Gayus Tambunan," he said.
Right now PPATK is tracing the assets believed to belong to Gayus in four countries namely Singapore, Malaysia, China and the United States.
"We are coordinating with Singapore, Malaysia, Macau (China, and the US," PPATK chief Yunus Husein said here on Thursday.
Yunus who is also a member of the presidential task force for the eradication of judicial mafia syndicates said that he had already sent a letter to the national police, the attorney general office and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to ask them to make a request for a Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) facility from those countries.
He said the withdrawal of Gayus`s assets from those countries through the MLA mechanism must be done.
Yunus confirmed that there were indications some of Gayus`s assets were kept in other countries.
"There are strong indications (they are) in one of our neighboring countries," he said but declined to name the countries nor the value of the assets.
Gayus has allegedly been involved in a tax fraud mafia syndicate. He has continued making headlines after being known of having visited some foreign countries while under detention.
He is also believed to have forged his picture for making a forged passport to go abroad.
Gayus was believed to be in Macau on September 22 to 24, 2010 and later on September 30, 2010 and October2, 2010 to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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