The company, which controls more than 90 percent of tin reserves in the country, mostly located in Bangka Belitung, allegedly facilitated illegal mining in its concession in the province from 2015 to 2022 and later conspired with third parties to channel profits to the company’s senior officials.

The third parties allegedly channeled the illegal tin production and profits through fake transactions of smelting services and corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds.  

The AGO has named 16 suspects, including former president director Mochtar Riza Pahlevi Tabrani and other former top-ranking officials in the company, as well as company executives and commissioners of the third-party companies, mostly in smelting services, implicated in the case.  

Arya Sinulingga, a special aide to State-owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir, said the ministry had been working with the AGO for months to uncover the case.

“This is a very old case but it hadn't been discovered, so we appreciate [the prosecution] by the AGO,” he told reporters on Thursday.

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