JAKARTA — The office of Indonesia's attorney general (AGO) has identified a former official in the mining ministry as a suspect in an investigation into illegal tin-mining, officials said on Wednesday (May 29).
An excavator loads raw nickel ore into a dump truck at a nickel mining site of Vale in Sorowako, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, March 29, 2023.JAKARTA — The office of Indonesia's attorney general has identified a former official in the mining ministry as a suspect in an investigation into illegal tin-mining, officials said on Wednesday .
The official, Bambang Gatot Ariyono, is suspected of not following proper procedure in expanding a miner's 2019 output quota by more than two-fold to "facilitate the illegal activity," an AGO official, Kuntadi, told reporters.A former director general of minerals and coal in the ministry, Bambang did not immediately respond when asked for comment.
Suspects number 22 so far in the case, which dates between 2015 and 2022, among them a former chief executive, a former finance director at Timah, and executives of other tin mining firms.
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