Timah Corruption Trial Harvey Moeis, Judge Highlights Control Of Illegal Miners: Is There A Rank, Is That Right?

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JAKARTA - The Jakarta Corruption Court Judge highlighted the difficulty of controlling illegal miners operating in the Mining Business Permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk.

It started when witness Ichwan Azwardi as the former Head of the Planning and Control Division of PT Timah Tbk for the 2017 to 2020 period conveyed the need for the arrangement of miners. Because, there was illegal mining.

Ichwan Azwardi was presented as a witness in the alleged tin corruption case for the defendant Harvey Moeis.

Chief Judge Eko Aryanto, who heard the witness's explanation, then interrupted.

Judge Eko questioned whether there was a concrete step to curb illegal miners.

"Just a moment. I want to know the concrete. Is there an attempt by PT Timah to control illegal miners in PT Timah's IUP area, is there any?" asked Judge Eko during the trial, Thursday, September 5.

"As far as I know, PT Timah has done, but this PIC is security, Your Honor. There has been an MoU with the police, if I'm not mistaken, the Regional Police at that time was for the handling of illegal Mining," replied Ichwan.

Then Judge Eko questioned the difficulties experienced by PT Timah Tbk so that it could not bring order to the illegal miners.

"What I got information from security, because this is a security PIC, it's been trying to ask security. Indeed, security itself is experiencing this difficulty because what they said was that they were backing up, Your Honor. So the term is that I can't go into legal problems," said Ichwan.

"So in terms of security, isn't it difficult? Is there a back and forth?" said Judge Eko.

"That's right, I got information from security," said Ichwan.

"Where do you usually hear the obstacles from?" said Judge Eko.

"Those are the officials, Your Majesty," said Ichwan.

For information, in the Timah corruption case, Harvey Moeis was charged with being involved in the alleged corruption of tin governance which caused a loss of Rp. 300 trillion.

In addition, Sandra Dewi's husband was also charged with money laundering (TPPU). Because, in the series of alleged corruption, Harvey Moeis received Rp420 billion.

In this case, Harvey Moeis was charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Anti-Corruption Law in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code and Article 3 of 2010 concerning Money Laundering.