Tin Corruption, Three Smelter Bosses Sued 8-14 Years In Prison

The trial for reading the demands for the alleged tin corruption case at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Monday (9/12/2024). (ANTARA/Agatha Olivia Victoria)

JAKARTA - As many as three high-ranking private smelters were sentenced to imprisonment for 8 years to 14 years related to cases of suspected tin corruption.

The three high-ranking smelters in question are the Owner of the Benefits of CV Venus Inti Perkasa (VIP) and PT Menara Cipta Mulia (MCM) Tamron alias Aon who were sentenced to 14 years in prison and the General Manager of Operational CV VIP and PT MCM Achmad Albani and CV VIP President Director Hasan Tjhie who were sentenced to 8 years in prison each.

"We demand that the defendants be proven legally and convincingly guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption together," said Public Prosecutor Ardito Muwardi during a trial reading the charges at the Jakarta Corruption Court as reported by ANTARA, Monday, December 9.

In addition to the three high-ranking private smelters, there were also tin ore collectors (collectors), Kwan Yung alias Buyung who were charged with imprisonment for 8 years.

Not only imprisonment, the four defendants were also charged by the prosecutor to be fined Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to one year imprisonment for Tamron, while Albani, Hasan, and Buyung were charged with a fine of Rp. 750 million each, subsidiary to six months imprisonment.

Meanwhile, for Tamron, additional penalties are also demanded in the form of payment of replacement money worth IDR 3.66 trillion, subsidiary to 8 years in prison.

Thus, the Public Prosecutor assessed that the actions of the four defendants were regulated and threatened with crime in Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code, as the first primary indictment.

Specifically for Tamron, the Public Prosecutor demanded that he be proven to have also been legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing the Crime of Money Laundering (TPPU), thus violating Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering, as the two primary charges.

The four defendants were previously suspected of being involved in the alleged corruption case in the management of tin commodity trading in the mining business permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk. 2015 2022 caused a loss to state finances worth IDR 300 trillion.

The loss included as much as Rp2.28 trillion in the form of losses for the cooperation activities of renting processing equipment (processing) logging with private smelters, Rp26.65 trillion in the form of losses due to tin seed payments to mining partners of PT Timah, and Rp271.07 trillion in the form of environmental losses.

In this case, Tamron together with Achmad, Hasan, and Buyung, through CV VIP and his affiliated companies, namely CV Sumber Energi Perkasa, CV Mega Belitung, and CV Mutiara Jaya Perkasa, were charged with buying and/or collecting tin ore from illegal mining in the PT Timah IUP area.

The activity was also carried out together with other private smelters, including PT Refined Bangka Tin, PT Sarijuna Binasentosa, PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa, and PT Tinindo Internusa.