The Attorney General's Office Affirms 109 Tons Of Antam Gold Circulating In The Original Society

Kapuspenkum Ketut Sumedana/ANTARA PHOTO/Reno Esnir/nym.

The Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, confirmed that the case of 109 tons of gold or metal starting (LM) with the stamp or stamp (licensing) of PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) or Antam which is being investigated by allegations of corruption by the Prosecutor's Office is not fake gold.

"This is not fake gold. The gold remains original according to Antam's standards," said Ketut, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, June 3.

Kapuspenkum explained that the gold pinned by Antam was illegal gold because it was obtained from illegal products. For example, obtained from illegal miners, from abroad.

In terms of regulations, the gold to be pasted must be verified first. But in this 109 tonne case, the illegal gold mixes with legal gold, causing it to affect Antam's supply and excesses occur in the market and affect prices at that time, the price of gold fell.

"There is a price difference, this is what we see as a state financial loss," said Ketut, who is also the Bali Attorney General's Office.

So, he said, the 109 tonne gold stamped by Antam was real gold which was obtained illegally.

"This is the same as yesterday's tin case, the lead is genuine, but because he owns the land, the host is sold which is obtained illegally using PT Timah," he explained.

Regarding public concerns after news of 109 tons of gold emerged, which was investigated by the Attorney General's Office as fake gold, Ketut emphasized that the gold remained genuine.

"That's real gold, only earlier if there was too much money circulating, it caused a lot of demand in the supply. So the price went down, so there was a difference in price at that time," said Ketut.

The Attorney General's Office has named six General Managers of the Mulia Metal Management and Purification Business Unit (UBPPLN) PT Antam Tbk for the 2010-2022 period as suspects in the case of alleged corruption in the governance of gold commodities for the period 2010-2022 weighing 109 tons.

The six suspects are TK as GM UBPPLN for the 2010-2011 period, HN for the 2011-2013 period, DM for the 2013-2017 period, AH for the 2017-2019 period, MAA for the 2019-2021 period and ID for the 2021-2022 period.

The suspects as GM UBPPL PT Antam have abused their authority by carrying out activities illegally against manufacturing services that should be in the form of merger, purification and printing of precious metals.

However, the suspects against the law and without authority have attached a private precious metal with the Mulia Metal (LM) Antam brand.

In fact, these suspects know that the attachment of the Antam LM brand cannot be done carelessly, but must be preceded by a work contract and there is a calculation of the cost that must be paid, because this brand is the exclusive right of PT Antam.

As a result of the actions of the suspects, during this period, precious metals had been printed with various sizes of 109 tons which were then circulated in the market simultaneously with metal starting with the official PT Antam product.

Therefore, this precious metal with an illegal brand has eroded the market of PT Antam's precious metals, so that the losses have multiplied.