KPK Confiscates IDR 100 Billion In Assets Related To Alleged Corruption In Antam Metal Anode Processing

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) confiscated assets in the East Java region suspected of being related to the alleged corruption in the processing of metal anodes at PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk. and PT Loco Montrado in 2017. The estimated value is said to have reached Rp. 100 billion.

"KPK investigators have confiscated land and building assets with a land area of approximately 5,000 m2," said KPK spokesman Tessa Mahardika to reporters at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Tuesday, November 26.

Tessa did not specify the exact location of the confiscated assets. (Turut was confiscated, ed) and its production equipment. The estimated value of the confiscation is IDR 100 billion," he said.

"That the confiscation in question is related to the alleged criminal act of corruption of any person who unlawfully commits acts of enriching himself or another person or a corporation that can harm state finances or the state economy cq PT Aneka Tambang Tbk., which was carried out by brother SB as the President Director of PT LM et al, related to the cooperation in processing metal anodes between PT Aneka Tambang Tbk., with PT LM 2017," continued the spokesman with the investigator's background.

Previously reported, the KPK has named two people as suspects in this case. They are Siman Bahar and Dodi Marbeli (DM) as General Manager of the PT Antam Processing Unit.

Dodi has now been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison. Meanwhile, Siman Bahar has not been detained due to his health condition.

The status of the suspect Siman Bahar had died after the South Jakarta Court Judge (PN Jaksel) granted the pretrial lawsuit he filed. However, the KPK again named Siman Bahar as a suspect for the second time.