Supreme Court Rejects Helena Lim's Cassation, Still Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison

The defendant in the case of alleged corruption in tin commodity trading in the mining permit area (IUP) of PT Timah 2015-2022 Helena Lim (medium) walked out after undergoing a trial reading the verdict at the Corruption Court, Jakarta, Monday (30/12/2024). BETWEEN PHOTO/Akbar Nugroho Gumay/nym. (ANTARA PHOTO/AKBAR NUGROHO GUMAY)

JAKARTA - The Supreme Court (MA) rejected the appeal of the defendant Helena Lim as the Manager of PT Quantum Skyline Exchange (QSE) in the corruption case in the management of tin commodity trading at PT Timah Tbk., so that the defendant was still sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Amar decision: refuse,' said the excerpt of the verdict Number 4985 K/PID.SUS/2025 quoted from the information page of the Supreme Court Case from Jakarta, Tuesday, July 1, was confiscated by Antara.

The verdict was decided by Supreme Court Justice Dwiarso Budi Santiarto along with two members, Agustinus Purnomo Hadi, and Achmad Setyo Pudjoharsoyo on Wednesday, June 25. The case is currently in the process of mitating or filing case files.

It is known that Helena Lim was sentenced to 5 years in prison by the panel of judges at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court. He was also sentenced to a fine of Rp. 750 million, subsidiary to 6 months in prison and compensation of Rp. 900 million, subsidiary to 1 year in prison.

However, at the appeal level, Helena's sentence was increased to 10 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to 6 months in prison, while the amount of replacement money did not change from the first instance court decision.

In this case, Helena was proven to have helped the defendant Harvey Moeis, as the extension of PT Refined Bangka Tin (RBT), to accommodate money from corruption in the mining business permit area or PT Timah Tbk IUP in 2015 2022 amounting to 30 million US dollars or equivalent to Rp420 billion.

In addition to helping store corruption money, Helena was also proven guilty of money laundering (TPPU) on the profit of managing security costs of Rp900 million, by buying 29 luxury bags, cars, land, and houses to hide the origin of the illicit money.

The actions of the defendants in the case, including Helena, were allegedly detrimental to state finances amounting to Rp300 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.

Helena 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 56 of the 2nd Criminal Code and Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering jo. Article 56 of the 1st Criminal Code.