Brilio.net - The alleged tin corruption case is increasingly revealing more suspects and also involving the husband of artist Sandra Dewi, Harvey Moeis . Investigators from the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the Attorney General's Office named Harvey as a suspect in the case of alleged corruption in the tin trading system in the PT Timah Tbk Mining Business License (IUP) area for 2015 to 2022.
"The investigative team considers that there is sufficient evidence so we are upgrading his status as a suspect, namely HM's brother (Harvey Moeis) as an extension of PT RBT," said Director of Jampidsus Investigations at the Attorney General's Office, Kuntadi, in Jakarta, Wednesday.
Before being named a suspect, investigators examined six witnesses, one of whom was Harvey Moeis, husband of Sandra Dewi . After being examined as a witness, he was upgraded to suspect status based on the evidence that investigators had.
Harvey Moeis is being detained for the next 20 days at the Salemba Detention Center, South Jakarta District Prosecutor's Office branch. Kuntadi explained that Harvey Moeis' role as the 16th suspect in a case that caused losses to the state due to environmental damage amounting to IDR 271.06 trillion.
"Around 2018 to 2019, brother HM contacted the Main Director of PT Timah, namely brother MRPT alias RZ in order to accommodate illegal mining activities in the PT Timah IUP area," said Kuntadi.
After holding several meetings, continued Kuntadi, it was finally agreed that the illegal tin mining accommodation activities would be covered by renting tin smelting processing equipment, following which Harvey Moeis contacted several smelters, namely PT SIP, CV VIP, PT SPS, and PT TIm to take part in the activities in question.
"Because of this activity, the suspect HM asked the smelter parties to set aside a portion of their profits, handing it over to the person concerned with cover for the payment of CSR funds sent by the smelter entrepreneurs to HM via QSE facilitated by the suspect HLN," said Kuntadi.
For his actions, Harvey Moeis is suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1), Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Corruption Crime Law in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.
So far, investigators have named 16 people as suspects. The day before, Tuesday, investigators named crazy rich Bangka Helena Lim as a suspect.
As for a number of parties who have been named as suspects, RL, as General Manager (GM) of PT TIN; BY as Former Commissioner of CV VIP; RI as President Director of PT SBS; SG alias AW and MBG, both are mining entrepreneurs in Pangkalpinang City, Bangka Belitung Islands Province.
Furthermore, HT alias AS as Main Director of CV VIP (the company owned by the suspect TN alias AN); MRPT alias RZ as President Director of PT Timah Tbk for the period 2016 to 2021; EE alias EML as Finance Director of PT Timah Tbk for the period 2017 to 2018.
One person was named as a suspect in obstructing the investigation into the corruption case regarding tin commodity trade in the PT Timah Tbk Mining Business License (IUP) area for the period 2015 to 2022, with the initials TT.
(brl/lea)
