Corruption Court Judge: PT Timah Loses Rp26 Trillion To The State
JAKARTA - Jakarta Corruption Court Judge Sukartono stated PT Timah Tbk. It cost the state Rp26 trillion in the alleged corruption case in the management of tin commodity trading in the mining business permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk. 2015 '2022.
"Since 2015, PT Timah has stopped mining in land mining areas, but has accommodated tin ore from illegal mining 5smelters and affiliates within the PT Timah IUP area," said Sukartono at the Jakarta Corruption Court, reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 11.
In fact, he continued, the parasmellers and affiliates knowing that mining in the PT Timah IUP area, aka outside the IUP of each company, is illegal.
"Not allowed, but PT Timah Tbk agreed to buy lead from the illegal mining," he said.
The agreement was realized through the creation and implementation of a mining partner cooperation program in order to buy tin ore from illegal miners.
Based on the knowledge of the President Director of PT Timah Tbk for the 2016-2021 period, Mochtar Riza Pahlevi Tabrani, continued Sukartono, Director of Operations and Production of PT Timah for the 2017-2020 period, Alwin Albar, has recorded 5 percent of tin ore delivery activities, which were sent by the private government.
"It is as if it is legal, official, as a production of the remaining program of PT Timah mining results," he said.
Sukartono said PT Timah engineered a tin ore reserve asset security program and 5 percent tin ore delivery activities sent by individuals and private smelters, namely PT Refined Bangka Tin, CV Venus Inti Perkasa, PT Sarijuna Binasentosa, PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa and PT Tinindo Internusa to PT Timah since 2017 2018.
"It is PT Timah's engineering to fulfill the realization of RKAB PT Timah by legalizing mining and purchasing tin ore from illegal mining at IUP PT Timah whose payments are based on tin tonnage," he said.
This engineering resulted in PT Timah's inappropriate expenditure, which amounted to Rp5,153,498,451,086 (Rp5 trillion).
Furthermore, Sukartono also said that the mining service partnership program between PT Timah and mining service partners, owners of the Mining Services Business License (IUJP) since 2015 '2022, which legalized mining and the purchase of tin ore from illegal mining resulted in the expenditure of PT Timah Tbk which should not have been IDR 10,387,091,224,913 (IDR 10.3 trillion).
Losses of Rp11,128,036,025,519 (Rp11 trillion) were explained by Sukartono from the five smelters who obtained raw lead by collecting illegal tin ore from collectors affiliated with them.
"And from shell companies or dolls from 5 smelters who received SPK (work orders) from PT Timah to make purchases from illegal mining within the PT Timah area," said Sukartono.
In the tin corruption case, the three defendants allegedly caused state losses of Rp. 300 trillion.
The loss included as much as Rp2.28 trillion in the form of losses for the cooperation activities of renting processing equipment (processing) logging with private smelters, Rp26.65 trillion in the form of losses due to tin seed payments to mining partners of PT Timah, and Rp271.07 trillion in the form of environmental losses.