REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — The Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) continues to pursue parties suspected of enjoying the proceeds of tin mining corruption at the PT Timah Tbk IUP location. Not only has the Attorney General arrested and named 16 people as suspects, he is also trying to save state losses in this case.
In the AGO’s calculations, state losses in the tin mining corruption case at the PT Timah Tbk IUP location are the largest record in handling corruption cases in Indonesia.
Jampidsus Investigation Director Kuntadi explained that the figure for state economic losses was IDR 271 trillion. z Regarding the value of IDR 271 trillion related to economic losses in this country, Jampidsus-Kejakgung collaborated with a team of environmental experts from the Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB), West Java (Jabar).
In fact, the value of the country’s economic losses, said Kuntadi, will increase. Because the investigation team, together with the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP), have not yet finished calculating the state’s financial losses from illegal tin exploration and addition at the PT Timah Tbk IUP location.
“The results of calculating economic losses are based on the impact of ecological and environmental damage resulting from illegal tin mining activities which are currently the (object of) investigation into criminal acts of corruption in the management of PT Timah Tbk’s mining business permits (IUP),” said Kuntadi.
In a series of searches carried out by investigative teams in Bangka Belitung and Jakarta, since November 2023, hundreds of billions in cash were confiscated. On Wednesday (6/11/2023), searches were conducted at nine tin mining offices in Bangka Belitung. Namely at PT SB, CV VIP, PT SIP, PT TIN, CV BS, and CV MAL, and in three houses owned by tin entrepreneurs with the initials A and TW.
From the search, the Head of the Penkum Attorney General’s Office, Ketut Sumedana, said that the prosecutor’s office confiscated 65 gold pieces with a total weight of 1,062 grams. Apart from that, the prosecutor’s office also confiscated Rp. 76.4 billion in cash and foreign currency equivalent to Rp. 23 billion, Rp. 4.79 billion, and the equivalent of Rp. 18.8 million.
In January 2024, Jampidsus investigators also searched and confiscated a Porsche car and a Honda Swift car belonging to the suspect TT. Investigators also conducted a search at the residence of the witness with the initials AS and confiscated money suspected to be proceeds from tin corruption worth IDR 6.07 billion, as well as foreign money equivalent to IDR 372.9 million.
From searches in warehouses and at mining sites guarded by TT, investigators confiscated 55 heavy equipment used for tin exploration. Among them are 53 excavator units and two bullduzoer units.
On March 9 2024, a week before announcing Helena Lim as a suspect, the Jampidsus-Kejakgung investigative team conducted searches at the residence and at the offices of PT QSE and PT SD. From the search, investigators confiscated a total of Rp. 33 billion in cash in the form of Rp. 10 billion, and 2.5 million Singapore dollar (SGD) denominations.