Timah Corruption Case, Helena Lim Denies Being A Collecter Of Smelter Cooperation Funds

The atmosphere of the reading of the memorandum of defense or plea at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday (12/12/2024). ANTARA/Putu Indah Savitri

Manager of PT Quantum Skyline Exchange (QSE) Helena Lim denied that the public prosecutor (JPU) of the Attorney General's Office said QSE was a fundraising tool for smelter cooperation.

"I declare strong rejection," said Helena in a hearing reading the memorandum of defense or plea at the Jakarta Corruption Court, reported by ANTARA, Thursday, December 12.

The transaction for purchasing foreign currency by the defendant Harvey Moeis and other defendants, he said, was not a fictitious transaction and was also not an act of collecting funds, but a transaction to purchase foreign exchange.

It was explained that the foreign parties purchased by the defendants had been fully received and had been acknowledged by them.

Helena emphasized that the profit is more or less the same as the benefits of the money changer service or other money exchanges.

"There is no more profit so it can be considered as the basis of the argument that I and/or PT QSE act as a fundraising tool for the mutual cooperation," he said.

Helena admitted that she had done administrative negligence before getting to know Harvey Moeis and the other defendants. However, he admitted that he had nothing to do and did not want to know about the affairs of Melter Harvey with PT Timah Tbk.

"I feel very unfair and strongly wronged by the public prosecutor. Just because I am a public figure, I am used as a tapping board, a talent by the public prosecutor," said Helena.

On Thursday (5/12), the public prosecutor (JPU) of the Attorney General's Office, Ardito Muwardi, at the Jakarta Corruption Court, demanded that Helena be sentenced to 8 years in prison in connection with a case of alleged corruption in the management of tin commodity trading in the mining business permit (IUP) area of PT Timah in 2015 2022.

In addition to imprisonment, the Public Prosecutor also demanded that the panel of judges punish Helena with a fine of Rp. 1 billion, provided that if the fine was not paid, it would be replaced (subsider) with imprisonment for 1 year.

Helena was also charged with additional criminal charges in the form of payment of replacement money amounting to Rp210 billion taking into account the assets that had been confiscated.

In the tin corruption case, Helena was charged with helping the defendant Harvey Moeis as the extension of PT Refined Bangka Tin to collect money from tin corruption amounting to US$30 million or equivalent to Rp420 billion.

The corruption money is thought to have come from the cost of securing processing tools or processing for tin logging of 500 US dollars to 750 US dollars per ton, which seems to be funds for social and environmental responsibility or four-smelters social responsibility (CSR) from the results of illegal mining in the IUPPT Tin Tbk area.

The four students in question are CV Venus Inti Perkasa, PT Sarijuna Binasentosa, PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa, and PT Tinindo Inter Nusa.

In addition to helping store corruption money, Helena was also charged with money laundering (TPPU) for 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.

For his actions, Helena was charged with causing a total loss to the state of Rp. 300 trillion in cases of alleged corruption in the management of tin trading in the PT Timah IUP region in 2015 '2022.