Attorney General's Office Designates PT CBU Owner as Suspect in Samin Tan Mining Case
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has designated the owner of PT Cordelia Bara Utama (PT CBU), initialled MJE, as a new suspect in the alleged corruption case in the mining sector involving businessman Samin Tan, the owner of PT Asmin Koalindo Tuhup (AKT).
“The investigative team from the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jam Pidsus) has designated one suspect and carried out the detention of MJE, the owner of PT CBU, in the case of alleged criminal corruption involving deviations in the management of PT AKT’s mining operations,” said the Head of the Public Information Centre for Criminal Affairs at the AGO, Anang Supriatna, in a written statement on Thursday (14/5/2026).
“The suspect MJE previously failed to comply with summonses from the investigative team without valid reasons,” he stated.
Anang explained that in this case, MJE, together with Samin Tan as the beneficial owner of PT AKT, used falsified verification result reports to obtain shipping approval letters.
“Therefore, suspect ST through PT AKT and its affiliates was able to carry out illegal coal exports obtained from PT AKT’s mining operations, whose permit had been revoked since 19 October 2017,” he added.
Subsidiarily, Article 604 in conjunction with Article 20 letter a or c of Law No. 1 of 2023 on the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 18 of Law No. 31 of 1999 on the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Law No. 20 of 2001 on Amendments to Law No. 31 of 1999 on the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 618 in conjunction with Article 20 letter a or c of Law No. 1 of 2023 on the Criminal Code.
“Suspect MJE has been detained for the next 20 days at the Salemba Detention Centre Branch of the South Jakarta District Prosecutor’s Office,” he said.
The designation of the suspect was carried out after the investigators obtained sufficient evidence through a series of investigation processes.
“The investigative team has designated suspect ST,” said the Head of the Public Information Centre for Criminal Affairs at the AGO, Anang Supriatna, on Saturday (28/3/2026), in the early hours.
Searches were conducted in four provinces, namely West Java, DKI Jakarta, Central Kalimantan, and South Kalimantan.
“To date, the searches are still ongoing, particularly in the Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan regions,” he said.