Set 22 Suspects, AGO Immediately Submits Tin Corruption Cases To Court

Deputy Attorney General For Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Attorney General Febrie Adriansyah (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office, Febrie Adriansyah, said investigators immediately transferred the case of alleged corruption in the tin trading system of the Mining Business Permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk from 2015 to 2022 to the court for trial.

"What is clear is that we have announced 22 suspects who we believe are the perpetrators, this is what enjoys, this is what causes state losses, we will immediately hear them," said Febrie in Jakarta, Wednesday, May 29.

Febrie said his agency had asked the Supreme Audit and Development Agency (BPKP) to immediately complete the calculation of state financial losses from illegal tin mining activities.

Based on the results of the BPKP audit, the value of state financial losses reached more than Rp. 300 trillion, consisting of the loss of cooperation between PT Timah Tbk and private smelters of Rp. 2,285 trillion, losses on tin ore payments to PT Timah Tbk amounting to Rp. 26,649 trillion, and environmental losses of Rp. 271.1 trillion.

According to Febrie, the AGO does not only stop at 22 suspects who have been named. As long as they have evidence, they do not hesitate to name a new suspect.

"So, rest assured that the prosecutor's investigator is professional, acts in the corridor of provisions and I specifically ask the Deputy for BPKP and auditors to accelerate the results of calculating state losses with the intention that we can quickly delegate them," he said.

If the case has been transferred to the court, added Febrie, then the Indonesian people can see from the evidence opened in court and from the testimony of the witness who spoke. This is also to answer the news about the existence of a police general with the initials B who was involved in the tin trading corruption case.

"If there is involvement, there is evidence there, our prosecutor makes a memorandum of opinion there to propose as a suspect from the results of the trial," he explained.

The former Director of Investigation at the Attorney General's Office of Jampidsus emphasized that his institution was not affected by the information on the parties involved and circulating on social media.

Prosecutors' investigators did not use information on social media as a benchmark to determine the suspect. "Our measure is of course what evidence we get. We are also assisted by PPATK," he added.

In addition, investigators are also studying the case of money laundering (TPPU) to ensnare the suspects.

"We really study TPPU, who received from the proceeds of the crime. We really do everything carefully, even from the start we have conveyed to the parties examined that we are doing this professionally and please take care of our investigators so that they are not affected by things that are not desirable," he said.

Febrie also invited the mass media to jointly oversee tin corruption cases that cost the state finances up to more than Rp300 trillion when they were tried in court.

"We are very happy when the case handling process at the prosecutor's office is closely followed by media friends as a correction or input to us. So, we don't want polemics," said Febrie.

The Director of Investigation at the Jampidsus Attorney General's Office Kuntadi added that his party is currently in the stage of preparing case files, and there has even been delegation to the public prosecutor for phase one.

Regarding this case, it will be tried in Jakarta or in Bangka Belitung, which is the scene of the case, Kuntadi said the AGO was considering several things to decide, including related to the efficiency and effectiveness of case handling.

"Regarding the place of the trial, indeed the location of the case is several that we have found. Where will the trial problem be seen, in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, case handling will be considered, including the easy side of the witnesses to be presented. We adhere to the cheap principle quickly," said Kuntadi.