Supreme Court Rejects Harvei Moeis' Cassation, Still Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

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JAKARTA - The Supreme Court decided to reject the appeal of the defendant Harvey Moeis, the extension of PT Refined Bangka Tin (RBT). Harvey was still sentenced to 20 years in prison in a corruption case in the management of tin commodity trading in the mining business permit area of PT Timah Tbk.

Amar decision: refuse,' said the excerpt of the verdict Number 5009 K/PID.SUS/2025 quoted from the Supreme Court Case Information page as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 1.

The verdict was decided by Supreme Court Justice Dwiarso Budi Santiarto along with two members, Arizon Mega Jaya and Achmad Setyo Pudjoharsoyo, on Wednesday (25/6). The case is currently in the process of mitating or filing case files.

Initially, the panel of judges at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Harvey to 6 years and 6 months in prison, a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to 6 months in prison, and compensation of Rp. 210 billion, subsidiary to 2 years in prison.

At the appeal level, the DKI Jakarta High Court increased Harvey's sentence to 20 years in prison, a fine of Rp1 billion, a subsidiary of 8 months in prison, and a replacement money of Rp420 billion, a subsidiary of 10 years in prison.

In this case, Harvey Moeis was found guilty of joint corruption related to the management of tin commodity trading in the mining business permit area or PT Timah Tbk IUP in 2015 '2022 which caused state losses of IDR 300 trillion.

The loss included as much as Rp2.28 trillion in the form of losses for the cooperation activities of renting logging processing equipment 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.

Harvey was proven to have received Rp420 billion along with PT Quantum Skyline Exchange (QSE) Manager Helena Lim and committed money laundering (TPPU) from the money he received.

Harvey was proven to have violated Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law 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) of the 1st Criminal Code and Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption jo. Article 55 of the 1st Criminal Code.