Jakarta, June 17 -- Indonesia's police have detained two additional suspects in an alleged illegal gold mining and money laundering case involving an illegal gold processing and distribution network.

The suspects were identified by their initials as DHB, a former director of PT SJU from Aug. 13, 2021, to Sept. 14, 2022, and VC, the company's current director since Sept. 14, 2022, Director of Special Economic Crimes at Indonesia's National Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim Polri) Brig. Gen. Ade Safri Simanjuntak said.

Police detained the pair on suspicion of jointly receiving, processing, refining and selling gold sourced from illegal mining operations, as well as involvement in money laundering offenses, he said.

After na...