Junior Attorney General For Special Crimes Names Five New Suspects In The Corruption Case Of PT Timah Tbk

Three and five suspects in the alleged corruption case in the tin commodity trading system in the Mining Business Permit (IUP) PT Timah Tbk from 2015 to 2022 (photo: dock. intermediate)

The Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office has named five new suspects in the investigation into the alleged corruption case in the tin commodity trading system for the Mining Business Permit (IUP) of PT Timah Tbk from 2015 to 2022.

The Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, revealed that the five suspects consisted of three private parties and two former directors of PT Timah Tbk, namely SG alias AW and MBG, both of whom are mining entrepreneurs in Pangkalpinang City, Bangka Belitung Islands Province. Another suspect is HT alias AS, as the President Director of CV VIP, a company owned by the suspect TN alias AN.

Ketut explained that the determination of the five suspects was based on the results of the examination related to the evidence found, so investigators were confident in determining them as suspects.

In addition, the suspect HT alias ASN was identified as the developer of the investigation of the suspect TN alias AN and the suspect AA, who had previously been detained on February 6.

In this case, the suspects SG alias AW and MBG have a company that entered into a cooperation agreement with PT Timah Tbk in 2018. They allegedly ordered the formation of a puppet company to accommodate the collection of illegal tin ore from PT Timah Tbk IUP.

The suspect MBG, with the approval of the suspect SG alias AW, also accommodated illegal tin miners in the IUP area of PT Timah Tbk, with tin ore obtained sent to the smelter belonging to the suspect SG alias AW.

Ketut added that the actions of the suspects caused state financial losses that exceeded losses from other corruption cases, as well as environmental damage due to illegal tin mining activities in Bangka Belitung Islands Province.

The suspects were charged with Article 2 Paragraph (1) and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption.

For the purposes of the investigation, several suspects have been detained at the State Detention Center, while the detention of other suspects will last for the next 20 days.

So far, the Attorney General's Office has named seven corruption suspects and one suspected of obstruction to the investigation in the case of the tin commodity trading system PT Timah Tbk for the 2015-2022 period.