The Attorney General's Office Confiscates 109 Tons Of Gold From 6 Corruption Suspects

Illustration of gold precious metal (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Investigators at the Directorate of Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office confiscated the assets of six suspects of corruption in gold commodity management for the period 2010-2022 weighing 109 tons. "The Jampidsus investigative team has confiscated assets in the form of gold bars weighing 7.7 kg," said Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office Harli Siregar in his statement, Tuesday, July 2.Harli explained that the 7.7 kg pure gold (fine gold) belonged to 6 suspects suspected of being the proceeds of crime. "Later, this evidence will be used for the sake of proving the proceeds of crime," said Harli. The six suspects are TK as General Manager of the Good Metal Management and Purification Business Unit (UBPPLN) PT Antam Tbk for the period 2010-20011, HN for the period 2011-2013, DM for the period 2013-2017, MAA for the period 2017-2019, MAA for the period 2021-2022 and ID for the period 2021-2022. The suspects as GM UBPPL PT Antam Tbk have abused their authority by carrying out activities illegally against manufacturing services that should be in the form of activities of smelting, refining and printing noble metals. However, the suspects against the law and without authority have attached a private metal belonging to the Mulia Metal brand (LM) 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 metals ranging from the official PT Antam product. "So that this illegally branded precious metal has eroded the market from PT Antam's precious metals, so the losses have become multiples more," said the Director of Investigation at Jampidsus Kuntadi.