Vincentius Amin Sutanto: I am not a repeat offender
THE West Jakarta District Court sentenced Vincentius Amin Sutanto to be jailed at Salemba Prison on August 9. The panel of judges, led by Sutarto K.S. declared Vincent, found the former financial controller of the Asian Agri Group (AAG), a subsidiary of the Raja Garuda Mas (RGM) group, guilty of money laundering and forgery. Vincent tried to steal US$3.1 million belonging to PT Asian Agri Oil & Fats in Singapore by forging the signature of the company’s executives. The crime was exposed and Vincent asked his boss, Sukanto Tanoto, CEO of RGM, that he be forgiven. Failing to do so, the Singkawang-born Vincent, 44, fled to Singapore. But he was not happy being on the run, so Vincent headed home to Indonesia. As a financial controller, Vincent was well aware of the accounting tricks practiced by the company he worked for to avoid paying the necessary taxes. This fact, along with a pile of documents and other evidence, he submitted to the police and the Corruption Eradication Committee ...