PT AMG Sand Mining Corruption, Former Head Of Mineral And Coal ESDM NTB Charged With Receiving Bribes Of IDR 659 Million

The defendant in the corruption of the PT AMG iron sand mine, Trisman sat in the patient chair at the trial of reading the charges at the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court, NTB, Wednesday (17/7/2024). (ANTARA/Dhimas BP)

JAKARTA - The prosecutor charged the former Head of Mineral and Coal Mineral Divisions of the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Department of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Trisman with accepting bribes worth Rp659 million.

Trisman became one of the defendants in the corruption case of the iron sand mine PT Anugrah Mitra Graha (AMG) in East Lombok.

The Public Prosecutor's Team, Fajar Alamsyah Malo, together with Budi Tridadi, delivered the statement in a trial to read the demands belonging to the defendant Trisman before the Panel of Judges at the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court, NTB, Wednesday, July 17, which was confiscated by Antara.

"Based on the legal facts as outlined in the discussion of the elements of the second indictment, the amount of property in the form of money obtained by the defendant from the criminal act of corruption in this case amounted to Rp659 million," said public prosecutor (JPU) Fajar Alamsyah Malo in a trial reading the charges at the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court, Wednesday, July 17, confiscated by Antara.

With the disclosure of Trisman's actions as a state civil servant (ASN) receiving Rp659 million on a regular basis, both cash and transfer through bank accounts belonging to the staff of the NTB ESDM Service, Desna Atmi Ulfa, the prosecutor asked the panel of judges to confiscate the money as part of the money to compensate for state financial losses.

Regarding the handover of money from the defendant Trisman at the investigation stage to the prosecution with a total value of Rp320 million, the prosecutor requested that the replacement money charged to the defendant be Rp339 million.

"If the defendant does not pay the replacement money no later than 1 month after the court's decision has permanent legal force, then his property can be confiscated by the prosecutor and auctioned off to cover the replacement money and in the case that the defendant does not have sufficient assets to pay the replacement money, the defendant will be sentenced to 1 year in prison," said the prosecutor.

In addition to asking the panel of judges to charge compensation for state financial losses, the prosecutor also requested that the defendant be sentenced to 3 years in prison with a fine of Rp. 50 million, subsidiary to 2 months in prison to replace the fine.

The second indictment that became the basis of the prosecutor asked the panel of judges to make such a decision referring to Article 11 in conjunction with Article 18 paragraph (1) letter b of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 65 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

In the material of the charges, the prosecutor also explained the origin of the defendant receiving bribes in a position worth Rp659 million. The money was revealed to have come from the Head of the Branch of PT AMG East Lombok Rinus Adam Wakum and 40 other people in the period 2022 and 2024.

The details of this Rp65 million came from Rinus Adam Wakum which was sent periodically to Desna Atmi Ulfa's banking account with a total of Rp57 million and from 40 other people amounting to Rp602 million.

"So each of these receipts should be considered as an act of 'accepting' continuously," he said.