The prosecutor dismissed the criminal investigation into fraud instances surrounding the Foundation Auxiliary Troops Alliance (SHA). Investigations on the 3 former directors of the foundation and the BV will continue. Sywert van Lienden, Bernd Damme and Camille van Gestel stay suspected of fraud, embezzlement and revenue laundering.
In accordance to the Prosecutor, there is no social interest in continuing to go after the foundation of the mouth mask and BV. The foundation and the BV have been just “the car or truck” utilized by the administrators. In addition, the new council mentioned it preferred to “clean up the house”. Van Lienden, Damme and Van Gestel ended up fired or resigned.
Van Lienden and Damme were being provisionally removed from the board in April. The General public Prosecutor and the 7 concerned had asked the decide to revoke them. The 3rd member of the board, Van Gestel, experienced currently resigned.
Van Lienden and the other administrators established up SHA to organize healthcare gadgets, together with mouth plugs, for clients. They explained they did it with no a income motive. Justice suspects that the trio funneled their clients to a secretly incorporated trading firm, with which they manufactured tens of millions of euros.
One of the agreements for the supply of masks was with the Ministry of Well being. Some of the mouth masks ended up rejected by the RIVM because they use the incredibly thin carbon material graphene to incorporate. For the time staying, none of the mouth plugs have been employed.
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