ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – The Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia has detained businessman Harvey Moeis, after being named a suspect in the tin commodity corruption case in the PT Timah Tbk (TINS) Mining Business License (IUP) area for the 2015-2022 period.
The Deputy Attorney General’s Director of Investigation for Special Crimes, Attorney General Kuntadi, said that his party had found two pieces of evidence that were sufficient to name Harvey as a suspect in this case.
“The special criminal investigation team in the tin trading criminal case in the PT Timah IUP area has examined 6 witnesses, one of the 6 witnesses and obtained evidence, namely Harvey Moeis as an extension of PT RBT as a suspect,” he said , Wednesday, March 27 2024 evening.
For investigation purposes, Harvey is being held at the Salemba detention center for the next 20 days.
For information, this case began when a number of suspects in this case had a meeting with former high-ranking officials of PT Timah Tbk. (TINS) to carry out mining in 2018.
PT Timah’s top officials, namely Riza Pahlevi and Emil Emindra, are suspected of accommodating illegal tin mining. This meeting resulted in collaboration between PT Timah and a number of companies by renting equipment for the smelting process.
Thus, to make illegal tin ore appear as if it were legal, a number of private companies collaborated with PT Timah to issue work orders (SPK). Apart from that, the alleged state administrator is also suspected of legalizing the activities of puppet companies mining tin by issuing work orders for the transportation of tin mineral processing waste products (SHP).
Then, to supply the tin ore needs, it was agreed to appoint seven dummy companies starting from CV BJA, CV RTP, CV BLA, CV BSP, CV SJP, CV BPR, and CV SMS.
Meanwhile, the illegal mining results were then sold again to PT Timah Tbk. According to the Attorney General’s records, PT Timah has spent IDR 1.72 trillion to buy tin ore.
Meanwhile, for the metalwork process, PT Timah Tbk has disbursed costs amounting to IDR 975.5 million from 2019 to 2022.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s Office has collaborated with environmental experts to calculate the ecological losses caused by tin mining in the PT Timah Tbk IUP case. (TINS). As a result, environmental damage losses reached IDR 271 trillion. (ATN)
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