SUNGAILIAT - Evidence of illegal tin weighing 1,240 kilograms was secured by the Special Criminal Investigation Unit (Tipidter) of the Bangka Police, Bangka Belitung Islands Province.
Wasdapani Kasat Reskrim Polres Bangka AKP Mauldi di Sungailiat, Selasa mengatakan barang bukti timah ilegal sebesar 1.240 kilogram berupa bijih timah dan balok timah atau timah yang dicetak dari hasil peleburan.
"Tin ore and tin blocks were obtained from the results of the raid of personnel in three locations in one area of the palm oil plantation of Kemuja Village, West Mendo District," he explained, quoted from ANTARA, Tuesday, February 17.
He admitted that during the raid, his party did not get any workers even though it was known that the furnace or tin ore smelting place was still hot.
"We suspect that the tin ore smelting activity is not long ago, because it is still hot," he explained.
Mauldi said his party had examined one of the villagers or the owner of the oil palm plantation used for smelting tin ore initials Hn alias KK (42).
"From KK's initial statement, he did not know the owner or the perpetrator of the smelting of tin ore without permission on the grounds that he only rented the oil palm plantation land," he explained.
According to him, the KK's statement was considered not credible so that Tipidter personnel were forced to search KK's house.
"As a result of the search at KK's house, we found evidence of 13 bags of tin sand and three bags of tin blocks of various sizes and conditions," he said.
The success of the Bangka Police Tipidter Unit in securing lead ingots and lead ore weighing 1,240 kilograms was the result of the development of community information.
"In addition to tin in the form of sand and tin that has been printed, we have secured other evidence such as mining equipment and other equipment," he explained.
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