The Attorney General's Office Ensures Antam's Gold Circulating In The Original Society

Illustration of Antam's precious gold metal (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) ensures that Antam's gold circulating in the community is genuine gold. This is because, in the case of corruption in the governance of gold commodities for the period 2010-2022, the criminal acts that occurred were in the form of illegally laying a logo or stamp.

"Indeed, gold is not fake, but the brand rights owned by PT Antam are illegally attached by the suspects," said Head of the AGO, Harli Siregar, to reporters, Thursday, July 18.

It is undeniable that there are concerns in the community about the authenticity of the gold they have after the emergence of the corruption case.

However, from the deepening, the suspect's modus operandi was not to fake gold. Instead, attach the logo illegally to get more profit

"So there is a difference in the price of the purchase price by attaching the brand," he said.

Then, Harli also conveyed that the estimated precious metals attached by the suspects illegally from 2010 to 2022 reached 109 tons.

Thus, the value of state losses due to the actions of the suspects reached Rp1 trillion. However, the figure is still an estimate. To be sure, we are still waiting for the expert calculation.

"From the temporary estimate calculated by investigators, but of course it has not been based on expert calculations which we hope can be completed in the near future, it is in the range of Rp. 1 trillion," said Harli.

In handling this case, the AGO named 7 new suspects. Thus, the temporary total becomes 13 suspects.

The seven new suspects had the initials LE, SL, SJ, JT, GAR, DT, and HKT. They are customers of the manufacturing services of the Mulia Metal Processing and Purification Business Unit (UBPPLM) PT Antam Tbk.

Based on the evidence, these seven people are strongly suspected of deliberately collaborating with the General Manager of UBPP LM who has also been named as suspects to abuse manufacturing services from 2010 to 2021.

"Each customer of UBPPLM manufacturing services PT Antam Tbk has unlawfully collaborated with UBPP LM General Managers who have previously been detained to abuse manufacturing services organized by UBPPLM," he said.

In this case, they are charged with Article 2 Paragraph (1), Article 3 jo. Article 18 of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.

Previously, the AGO had named 6 suspects who were former UBPPL GM PT Antam Tbk.

The details are kindergarten 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.