Timah Corruption Case, PT RBT Boss's Sentence Is Increased To 19 Years In Prison

JAKARTA - The prison sentence against the President Director (Director) of PT Refined Bangka Tin or RBT Suparta related to the corruption case in the management of tin commodity trading in the Mining Business Permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk. in 2015 '2022 it was increased to 19 years.

The panel of judges at the DKI Jakarta High Court has increased the verdict, after receiving a request for an appeal from the public prosecutor and Suparta as the defendant in the case.

"Thus, the DKI Jakarta High Court changed the decision of the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor) at the Central Jakarta District Court (PN)," said Chief Judge Subachran Hardi Mulyono in a hearing reading the appeal decision at the DKI Jakarta High Court, Thursday, February 13. Between.

However, in the criminal fines and additional penalties imposed on Suparta by the Jakarta Corruption Court Panel of Judges, the Jakarta High Court of Judges did not change that.

For the criminal fine, the sentence against Suparta remains at Rp. 1 billion, provided that if the fine is not paid, it will be replaced (subsider) with imprisonment for 6 months.

Meanwhile, in additional crimes, the Panel of Judges determined that the replacement money paid by Suparta remained at IDR 4.57 trillion.

However, the replacement sentence if Suparta does not pay the replacement money will be increased by the DKI Jakarta High Court to 10 years in prison.

Apart from Suparta, the Panel of Judges at the DKI Jakarta High Court also increased the sentence of the Director of Business Development of PT RBT Reza Andriansyah, who was also dragged into the case, which was 10 years in prison.

Even so for the criminal fine, the Panel of Judges did not change the decision of the first instance court handed down to Reza, which amounted to Rp750 million, subsidiary to imprisonment for 3 months.

Previously, Suparta was sentenced to 8 years in prison, a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to imprisonment for 6 months, and to pay compensation of Rp. 4.57 trillion, subsidiary to 6 years in prison by the Jakarta Corruption Court.

Meanwhile, Reza was sentenced to 5 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 750 million, subsidiary to three months in prison.

Reza was declared legally and proven guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption together, thus violating Article 2 Paragraph (1) jo. Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.

In the tin corruption case, the two defendants were proven to have committed corruption together, causing 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.

Suparta was proven to have received a flow of funds amounting to Rp4.57 trillion and committed a crime of money laundering (TPPU) from funds received.

Meanwhile, Reza was declared not to have received the flow of funds from the alleged corruption case, but was proven to be involved and knew and approved all acts of corruption in the tin case.