Help Harvey Moies Accommodate Tin Security Money, Helena IDR 900 Million Featured Team

Helena Lim (the shirt and black mask), a defendant in the corruption case in the management of tin commodity trading in the 2015 PT Timah Tbk IUP area. (Rizky A-VOI)

JAKARTA - Crazy Rich Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK), Helena Lim, was charged with helping Harvey Moeis accommodate security money from five private smelters companies worth Rp420 billion in the alleged corruption case of the management of tin commodity trading in the mining business permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk from 2015 to 2022.

By helping Harvey Moeis, the defendant Helena Lim made a profit of around Rp900 million.

"Defendant Helena through PT Quantum Skyline Exchange received a total profit of approximately Rp900 million with a calculation of Rp 30 times USD 30 million, the amount exchanged at PT Quantum Skyline Exchange," said the public prosecutor at the trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Wednesday, August 21.

Helena Lim's action to help Harvey Moeis began with the illegal 2015-2019 Budget and Cost Work Plan (RKAB) against 5 (five) smelter companies approved by the Head of Energy and Mineral Resources of Bangka Belitung Province for the period.

The five companies include PT Refined Bangka Tin and its affiliated company, CV Venus Inti Perkasa and its affiliated company, PT Sarijuna Binasentosa and its affiliated company, PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa and its affiliated company, and PT Tinindo Internusa and its affiliated company.

However, RKAB is only a formality to accommodate the illegal collection and management of tin ore from the PT Timah Tbk IUP area.

Then, around 2019, the smelters know that they will not get RKAB approval because they do not have a compact person (CP).

Thus, they proposed to PT Timah Tbk to make an agreement so that illegal tin ore belonging to private smelters can be sold and purification and logging are carried out, but all payment requirements must be made by PT Timah.

The proposal was realized by cooperation. Even though it was not contained in the company's budget work plan (RKAP) of PT Timah Tbk in 2018.

In addition, the cooperation program agreement was inserted regarding the rental of PT Timah Tbk's tin logging processing equipment which was considered just a trick. This is because the rental price far exceeds the value of PT Timah's HPP smelter.

The rental price for tin logging processing equipment was also made without feasibility study with a back date study. The rental price agreement is USD 3,700 per ton of SN outside the tin ore price that must be paid by PT Timah Tbk to CV Venus Inti Perkasa, PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa, PT Tinindo Internusa, PT Sarijuna Binasentosa, but specifically PT Refined Bangka Tin, the smelter represented by Harvey was given an additional incentive of USD 300 per ton of SN so that the special contract value for PT Refined Bangka Tin became USD 4,000 per ton of SN.

Harvey Moeis, who is the initiator of the tin-lagging processing processing cooperation program, asked the smelters to set aside part of the profits generated as security money.

However, the security money was made as if it were corporate social responsibility or CSR funds of USD 500 to USD 750 per ton.

It was during the process of collecting security money that Helena Lim played a role. He accommodated him at Harvey Moeis' request.

Then, Helena Lim, who is the owner of PT QSE, recorded the receipt of the money as foreign exchange.

"That after the money entered the account of PT Quantum Skyline Exchange, the defendant Helena was exchanged from rupiah currency into foreign currency into the US dollar, which totaled approximately USD 30 million," said the prosecutor.

Furthermore, Helena gave the money to Harvey Moeis in cash and gradually through a courier of PT Quantum Skyline Exchange.

Specifically for the money received by Harvey through Helena by transfer in the 2018-2023 period, it was recorded four times. Namely, the first transfer was IDR 6,711,215,000 (IDR 6.7 billion), the second transfer was IDR 2,746,646,999 (IDR 2.7 billion), the third transfer was IDR 32,117,657,062 (IDR 32.1 billion) and the fourth was IDR 5.5 billion.

In this case, Helena Lim was charged with violating Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Anti-Corruption Law in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code and Article 3 and Article 4 of Law No. 8 of 2010 concerning Prevention and Eradication of TPPU in conjunction with Article 56 of the 1st Criminal Code.

For information, this tin corruption case caused state losses to reach Rp300,003,263,938,131.14 (Rp300 trillion).