Indonesia hands over seized tin assets to state miner PT Timah


FILE PHOTO: A truck passes through a tin mining area of Indonesia's state-owned PT Timah in Pemali, Bangka island, Indonesia, July 25, 2019. Indoneia aims to improve governance of mining activities, with measures including a clampdown on unlawful mining.- Reuters

PANGKALPINANG, Indonesia: Indonesia's attorney general on Monday (Oct 6) handed over assets seized in a tin mining corruption case to state tin miner PT Timah in the presence of President Prabowo Subianto, who vowed to halt illegal mining of tin.

The assets transferred to Timah included six units of smelters, about 680 metric tonnes of refined tin, 108 units of heavy equipment and other assets, data from the attorney general's office showed.

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