Parliament has gone to great effort in obtaining more
details regarding the huge amount of money restituted to a known criminal by the
Ministry of Justice in 2014. The deal
was concluded by then prosecutor Fred Teeven, who later became Deputy Minister
of Justice. The then Minister of
Justice, Ivo Opstelten, said that the payment was 1.25 million guilders. However, the receipt could not be found. It has now become known that ministry
officials did know where the receipt was in 2014. The commission of inquiry were told to stop
the investigation – it is not clear on whose instructions. In 2015 it was discovered that the amount in
question was in fact 5 million guilders.
The day after this sum was disclosed, both Opstelten and Teeven
resigned. The commission headed by
Marten Oosting, which investigated the so-called Teeven deal in the past, has
now been asked to re-open its investigation.
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