The investigation team at the Directorate of Investigation, the Office of Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes has again named one new suspect in an alleged corruption case in the tin commodity trading system at PT Timah’s Mining Business Permit (IUP) area from 2015 to 2022.
To date, the Investigation Team has examined a total of 142 witnesses in this case.
“Based on the results of the examination and associated with sufficient evidence, the Investigation Team has raised the status of one witness to become a suspect, namely HLN or Helena Lim, the Manager of PT QSE,” Ketut Sumedana, spokesman of Attorney General’s Office said on Tuesday, March 26 ,2024
According to local media report, the suspect Helena Lim is known as the “crazy rich” of Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK), Jakarta.
Approximately in 2018 to 2019, the suspect HLN as Manager of PT QSE was strongly suspected of having helped manage the proceeds in the lease of tin smelting processing equipment in the mining bussines permit area of PT Timah.
The act was carried out by providing facilities to smelter owners under the pretext of receiving or distributing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds, which actually benefited the suspect himself and other suspects who had been detained earlier.
The articles charged to Suspect HLN are Article 2 Paragraph (1) and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law No. 31/1999 as amended and supplemented by Law No. 20/2001 in conjunction with Law No. 31/1999 on the Amendment to Law No. 31/Year 1999 on the Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 56 of the Criminal Code.
Furthermore, the suspect HLN was detained at the Salemba Prison for the next 20 days, starting from 26 March 2024 to 14 April 2024.
