The Attorney General's Office Names New Suspects Of Tin Corruption

The Attorney General's Office has named a new suspect with the initials RL, as General Manager of PT TIN in a case of alleged corruption in tin/ANTARA/Laily Rahmawaty commodity trading.

JAKARTA - Investigators from the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the Attorney General's Office have again named a new suspect in the alleged corruption case in the tin commodity trading system in the PT Timah Tbk Mining Business Permit (IUP) region from 2015 to 2022.

Director of Investigation Jampidsus Kuntadi said that one suspect was named with the initials RL, as General Manager (GM) of PT TIN.

"After the person concerned was examined intensively and based on sufficient evidence, we then determined him as a suspect," Kuntadi said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, February 19.

The role of RL in this case, together with the suspect MRPT alias RZ as the President Director of PT Timah Tbk for the period 2016 to 2021 and the suspect EE alias EML as the Finance Director of PT Timah Tbk for the period 2017 to 2018 signed a cooperation contract.

Where in the cooperation agreement, said Kuntadi, suspect RL collected tin ore that was covered by the formation of a doll company.

"These puppet companies were used by the suspect RL to accommodate the collection of tin seeds," said Kuntadi.

The suspect RL is suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 11 of the Corruption Crime Law in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 of the 1st.

To speed up the investigation process, the suspect was detained for the next 20 days at the Pondok Bambu Detention Center, East Jakarta.

Meanwhile, the investigation of this case is still ongoing. A total of 130 witnesses have been examined by prosecutors.

Of the 130 witnesses, nine have been named as suspects. With details, two TN suspects alias AN and suspect AA have previously been detained on Tuesday (6/2).

Then five suspects were named Friday (16/2), namely SG alias AW and MBG, both as mining entrepreneurs in Pangkalpinang City, Bangka Belitung Islands Province.

Then, HT alias AS as the President Director of CV VIP (the company belonging to the suspect TN alias AN).

Two other suspects, MRPT alias RZ as the President Director of PT Timah Tbk for the period 2016 to 2021 and EE alias EML as the Finance Director of PT Timah Tbk for the period 2017 to 2018.

Furthermore, on Sunday (18/2), the prosecutor's investigators named two new suspects with the initials BY as the former Commissioner of CV VIP and RI as the President Director of PT SBS.

One person was named a suspect in the obstruction to the investigation of the corruption case in the tin commodity trading system in the PT Timah Tbk Mining Business Permit (IUP) for the period 2015 to 2022, with the initials TT.