DutchNews.nl, March 9,
2015
Hardline justice minister Ivo Opstelten and his deputy Fred Teeven have resigned following revelations about a 4.7 million guilder payment to a convicted drugs baron in 2001.
Opstelten
and Teeven during their press conferences. Photos: Nos
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Hardline justice minister Ivo Opstelten and his deputy Fred Teeven have resigned following revelations about a 4.7 million guilder payment to a convicted drugs baron in 2001.
Speaking at a news
conference on Monday evening, Opstelten said further investigation by his
officials had led to the discovery of‘digital confirmation’ that showed Cees H had
been paid 4.7 million guilders, not two million guilders as he had consistently
told parliament.
‘There has been a lack of certainty about the facts
surrounding that settlement and I have concluded that I must now resign,’
Opstelten said in a short statement
Teeven said he did his credibility had been
damaged by the situation and that he could no longer carry on in the job
without Opstelten. Nevertheless ‘there was nothing wrong with the deal,’ Teeven
said. ‘It was done for folk and fatherland.’
Neither minister would answer
reporters’ questions and left the room after making their statements.
Tax
office
Earlier on Monday, the Telegraaf reported that the receipt for the
payment had been found, proving that Teeven authorised the return of 4.7
million guilders to a convicted drugs dealer, without the knowledge of his
superior or the tax office. Teeven was then chief public prosecutor.
The
Telegraaf says many questions remain to be answered about why Cees H was
handled with kid gloves and why the justice ministry agreed to such a lucrative
deal.
The deal, which was kept secret from the tax authorities, hit the
headlines in March 2014 when H’s lawyer at the time said his client had been
paid back five million guilders. The public prosecution department had sequestered
around five million guilders in assets from drugs lord H – including property
and jewellery.
However, the department was unable to prove the assets had been
obtained illegally and so most of the money was returned to H.
Teeven agreed to
the deal in ‘complete confidentiality’ so that ‘national and/or international
tax services and fiscal authorities’ were not informed, television current
affairs show Nieuwsuur said earlier this month.
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The
Netherlands' justice minister, Ivo Opstelten, arrives for a
press conference
about his resignation in The Hague. Photograph:
Evert-Jan Daniels/EPA
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