Complete Dossier, 2 Suspects Of Illegal Sand Mining In Bintan Kepri Will Soon Be Tried

The Bintan Police handed over the suspect and evidence of the illegal sand mining case to the Bintan District Attorney's Office (Kejari), Friday (12/5/2023). ANTARA/HO-Humas Bintan Police.

KEPRI - Bintan Police, Riau Islands Police (Kepri), handed over the files of two suspects in the alleged illegal sand mining with the initials AM (51) and ST (48) to the Bintan District Attorney (Kejari).

"After an investigation and the filing process was declared complete by the Bintan Kejari. The case files of the two suspects were immediately transferred to the prosecution process," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Bintan Police, AKP Marganda P, Friday, May 12, confiscated by Antara.

In addition to the two suspects, the police also handed over evidence to the prosecutor's office in the form of sand suction machines, water suction machines, shovels, hoes, paralon pipes, two trucks/lories, to Rp520,000 in cash.

Kasat explained that the two suspects AM and ST were arrested by the Bintan Police Criminal Investigation Unit while mining unlicensed or illegal sand in Gunung Kijang District, Bintan Regency, on Thursday 9 May.

"By using a sand sequester machine, the sand is plastered and put into a truck/lori, then sold for Rp. 450.000 per truck/lori," he said.

Based on the results of the investigation, said Marganda, the two suspects had been mining illegal sand since February 2023, and they also admitted that the mining activity did not have a permit from the local government.

According to him, the two suspects were charged with Article 158 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 3 of 2020 (Revision of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 4 of 2009) concerning mineral and coal mining, with a maximum imprisonment of five years and a maximum fine of IDR 10 billion.