TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Recent social media posts claimed that state losses in PT Antam‘s alleged corruption case reached Rp5.9 quadrillion (Rp5,900 trillion) and that 109 tons of fake gold were in circulation. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO), which has been investigating the case since May 2024 and has named six suspects, denied these figures.
The AGO refuted the Rp5.9 quadrillion claim, reiterating that previous estimates put the state’s losses at Rp1 trillion. “We never reported such a figure in the Antam case,” said AGO spokesperson Harli Siregar on March 11, as Antara reported.
Additionally, the AGO addressed social media claims that 109 tons of fake gold were…