The Attorney General's Office Names 2 New Suspects For Corruption In The Tin Commodity

JAKARTA - Investigators of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the Attorney General's Office, Tuesday, named two new suspects in the alleged corruption case in the tin commodity trading system for the Mining Business Permit (IUP) of PT Timah Tbk from 2015 to 2022.

Director of Investigation at the Jampidsus Attorney General's Office Kuntadi said the two suspects were TN alias AN as Beneficial Ownership CV VIP and PT MCM and AA as Operational Manager for CV VIP and PT MCM.

"Based on the results of the examination and related to sufficient evidence, today the investigative team has raised the status of 2 witnesses to become suspects," Kuntadi said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, February 6.

Previously, on Tuesday (30/1), investigators also named one suspect with the initials TT in the case of obstruction of justice in the alleged corruption case of tin commodity trading in the PT Timah Tbk Mining Business Permit (IUP) period 2015 to 2022.

Kuntadi said that 115 witnesses had been examined in this case. In addition to examining and determining the suspect, investigators also confiscated a number of evidences.

He detailed that the confiscated evidence, namely 55 heavy equipment consisting of 53 excavator units and 2 bulldozer units that were strongly suspected of belonging to the suspect TN alias AN, and confiscated 1,062 grams of precious metal and cash, both foreign and rupiah currency, with details:

IDR 83,835,196,700 cash; 1,547,400 US dollars; 443,400 Singapore dollars; 1,840 Australian dollars.

Kuntadi explained that the role of the two suspects in this case began in 2018 when CV VIP had entered into a cooperation agreement to lease tin smelting processing equipment with PT Timah Tbk, then suspect TN alias AN as the owner of CV VIP ordered suspect AA as the CV VIP Mining Operations Manager to provide tin ore by forming several puppet companies such as CV SEP, CV MJP, and CV MB to collect illegal tin ore from PT Timah Tbk IUP.

To legalize the activities of the doll company, said Kuntadi, PT Timah Tbk issued a Work Order as if there were wholesale activities to transport the remaining tin mineral products.

"The actions of the suspects resulted in state financial losses and until now we are still waiting for the results of the calculations," said Kuntadi.