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NOS News•today, 10:21

The criminal case has started in Rotterdam against the former alderman of The Hague Richard de Mos and seven others. They are suspected of forming two criminal organizations, official corruption and violating professional secrecy. Fifteen court days have been set aside for this.

Justice thinks that three real estate and two catering entrepreneurs from The Hague have been given a preferential position in exchange for donations totaling 113,000 euros to De Mos’s party. The entrepreneurs received information about future real estate projects and were able to influence municipal policy. They would also have received two night exemptions for catering establishments.

De Mos and his colleague Rachid Gernaoui, who is also on trial, arrived at the court in Rotterdam this morning in a striking green-yellow limousine. The Moss repeated that he was “very excited” to start the case and that the “road to rehabilitation” could begin.

The arrival of De Mos and Gernaoui:

Last week, Professor of Constitutional Law Wim Voermans at the University of Leiden objected News hour that the file of the Public Prosecution Service contains a lot of solid evidence for criminal acts. “The Public Prosecution Service says that there is a select group of entrepreneurs who have donated heavily to the party. They seem to get things done to order and solid evidence for this is provided in this file.” said Voermans.

Editor Bas de Vries:

“De Mos has said several times that he assumes an acquittal. He says that he has not done things that other politicians do not do either. According to De Mos, the difference is that they have not been tapped for many months in a row. Then things always come out that seem suspicious, says De Mos, but they are not.

De Mos’s defense has always been that he practiced ‘ombudsman politics’ and not favoritism. On the eve of the trial, the AD quoted entrepreneurs who clearly saw it differently. ‘Milking to the bone’, a real estate entrepreneur said to his partner about his close relationship with De Mos.

The central question is whether there really was corruption. Those entrepreneurs paid to his political party, but not to De Mos himself. That money did not end up in his pockets. The Public Prosecution Service must now prove that these donations were directly offset by services that De Mos provided to them. That it was a matter of for what, hear what. That will be the core in the coming weeks.”

Watch a reconstruction of De Mos’s corruption case here:

De Mos criminal file leaked, we know this

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Corruption case against former alderman Richard de Mos in The Hague begins