Six former officials of PT Antam Tbk were charged with causing state financial losses of Rp3.31 trillion in connection with the alleged corruption case of Antam's gold commodity management weighing 109 tons for the 2010 '2022 period.
The Public Prosecutor (JPU) of the Attorney General's Office, Syamsul Bahri Siregar, revealed that six defendants were suspected of having committed or participated in the unlawful act together.
"This act has enriched oneself or other person or a corporation so that it is detrimental to state finances or the country's economy," said the Public Prosecutor at the trial of reading the indictment at the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor) as reported by ANTARA, Monday, January 13.
The six former Antam officials include the Vice President (VP) of the Antam Precious Metal Processing and Purification Business Unit (UBPP LM) for the 2008 period "2011 Tutik Kustiningsih," VP UBPP LM Antam for the 2011 period 2013 Herman, and Secretary Executive VP UBPP LM Antam 2013 2017 Dody Marbeli.
Then, General Manager (GM) UBPP LM Antam for the 2017'2019 period Abdul Hadi Aviciena, GM UBPP LM Antam for the 2019 '2020 period Muhammad Abi Anwar, and GM UBPP LM Antam for the 2021'2022 period Iwan Dahlan.
For his actions, six defendants were suspected of violating Article 2 Paragraph (1) or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.
The prosecutor said that the actions of the six former Antam officials were carried out together with seven defendants, the private sector as customers of the purification services and gold smelting services, which were tried separately.
The seven defendants, namely Lindawati Efendi, Suryadi Lukmantara, Suryadi Jonathan, James Tamponawas, Ho Kioen Tjay, Djudju Tanuwidjaja, and Gluria Asih Rahayu.
The prosecutor revealed that the case began when Tutik, Herman, GM UBPP Logam Mulia in 2013 Tri Hartono, Dody, Abdul, Abi, and Iwan collaborated in gold washing and melting gold stamps with third parties (organese parties, gold shops, and companies) non-contract works during the 2010 period. 2022.
"Cooperations were carried out with Lindawati, Suryadi Lukmantara, Suryadi Jonathan, James, Djujuju, Ho, and Gluria," said the Public Prosecutor.
However, the prosecutor continued, the cooperation between the washing gold and the melting of gold stamps between Tutik, Herman, Tri, Dody, Abdul, Abi, and Iwan with seven private parties was not the core business of UBPP Logam Mulia.
It is also suspected that the cooperation was not accompanied by an intelligence business study and an accurate study of potential opportunities, no legal studies and compliance were carried out, no risk studies were carried out, and no approval from the Board of Directors.
In addition, the cooperation to melt the cap and gold wash was not carried out due diligence-knowyourcustomer (KYC), so that the source or origin of gold supplied and produced at UBPPLM-Antam was unknown, whether it came from illegal mining, human rights violations, money laundering, or terrorism financing.
In that case, Tutik, both acting individually and together with Herman, Tri, Dody, Abduk, Abi, and Iwan, was charged with providing convenience to the seven defendants from the private sector and non-contract customers of other works who used the services of melting caps or washing refineries/gold services, namely by not conducting KYC or due diligence on customer-owned gold raw materials.
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Customers, said the Public Prosecutor, were only asked to show their identity in the form of an Identity Card (KTP) and the UBMA UBPP Logistics Team, so that the origin of the acquisition of gold raw materials belonging to the non-contract customers of the work was not known to be legal.
As a result of the actions of the defendants, the state suffered a loss of IDR 3.31 trillion because the act had enriched several parties, namely Lindawati worth IDR 616.94 billion, Suryadi Lukmantara IDR 444.93 billion, Suryadi Jonathan IDR 343.41 billion, and James IDR 119.27 billion.
Then, enriching Djujuju by Rp43.33 billion, Ho worth Rp35.46 billion, Gluria as much as Rp2.07 billion, and other customers (people, gold shops, companies) non-contract work of Rp1.7 trillion.
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