RSSMore Crime, Corruption and Cover Up in Aruba … Say it Isn’t So … Henry Eman & Former Minister Tico Croes Acquitted from Violation of the Accountability Ordinance
Does it really surprise anyone that a “Judge” would acquit government officials in Aruba for possible crimes and corruption? Is it really possible for any justice to occur on “One Happy Island”. It appears to be not what crime one committed, or what evidence there is against you … but who do you know and what power do you have. Justice is supposed to be blind … NOT IGNORANT and CORRUPT!
From the sentences, the OM realized that “it pays for the government not keeping the books univocally, while in fact, a financial mismanagement (lack of approved annual accounts with corresponding budgets) leads to criminal immunity”. This bears the OM big concern, “not only in this case, but also for the current situation and in the future.
OM is considers appealing: ‘Government’s non univocal accounting pays’ (Amigoe: 3/12/2008)
Member of Parliament Otmar Oduber (AVP) will remain in Parliament, now that he is acquitted from bribery in the Fondo Desaroyo Nobo criminal case.
ORANJESTAD – The Public Prosecutor (OM) is not pleased with the verdicts in the Fondo Desaroyo Nobo (FDN) criminal case and considers appealing. Ten of the seventeen suspects were convicted to conditional punishments. The other seven, including Otmar Oduber (AVP) were acquitted. He cried with happiness but also with frustration for the ‘four years of misery that the MEP-government had done to him and his family’.
However, the OM is not pleased with the sentences of Oduber, former premier Henny Eman, and former minister Tico Croes, whom were all acquitted from violation of the Accountability Ordinance. In this case, it is about overrunning the budget in 1999 and 2000 and also the illegal creation of a budget fund for the FDN-program. But the judge says that the OM had not proofed that the budgets were overran. The budgets and the annual accounts could not be compared with each other, because there were no approved annual accounts in 1999, 2000, and also 2001. There is also no proof that the 6 million florins that cabinet-Eman reserved every year, was a maximum amount that the government was authorized to spend on FDN-projects. The judge was also of the opinion that former premier Croes was not required to lawfully create a budget fund to regulate the financing.
From the sentences, the OM realized that “it pays for the government not keeping the books univocally, while in fact, a financial mismanagement (lack of approved annual accounts with corresponding budgets) leads to criminal immunity”. This bears the OM big concern, “not only in this case, but also for the current situation and in the future. We need to see to what extent the criminal justice is an adequate means to promote good public finances.”
The OM is also going to look into the sentences of the four former civil servants of the ministry of Finance, namely the case against Lionel Richardson, Nilknarf Kock, Filomeno Sint Jago, and Mariano Arendsz. All four were acquitted due to lack of evidence. The OM is considering appealing all the acquittals, but will come with a definite decision in March 24.
Posted March 14, 2008 by Scared Monkeys Amigoe, Aruba, Corruption, Crime, Government, Judicial, WTF | 13 comments |
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I am totally amazed at what is going on in this tiny
corrupt island and I also believe that it will take an action that directly affects the NL to finally get them to flex a muscle and topple Aruba but as long as the DRUG money and the Lords along with their judicial and LE cohorts are alive and well to make their designated payoffs then all will remain the same as it is now. Wonderful place to take the wife and kids or send them for holiday huh ?
aruba
one dangerous island
americans
boycott boycott boycott
aruba is the most corrupt island
its just now coming to full light…
I think what they’re doing is a good thing; but if they really want to tackle corruption at the core, they need to continue their investigation in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. They are prooving that there is a place for corruption, but who is the MOST corrupt of them all? And who are the whistle-blowers. If this is all show to try to send the message that all is well in Aruba…
I’m not buying it.
As long as Natalee is missing and there is no explanation for their intentional ineptness, there is no okay for Aruba. We want the truth, along with an explanation of the photographs taken of the rock area, shorthly AFTER the first confession of Joran Van der Sloot.
Oduber says 97,000 people know,
we want to hear it!
I would bet that every psychic that has looked
into this case has said the same thing I did:
EVERYONE feels GUILTY!!!
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Boycott Aruba!
Boycott Aruba forever.
Why is this a big surprise? There is no crime on this island. Just as much as there are no traffic accidents. One thing that always puzzles me…in an island of no crime…why do the police complain about overtime? Why need lawyers and judges….oh please, yes I know there are other legal matters that require attorneys….but if there is no crime, why the need for prosecutors, jails, etc? They should redo their logo….”One safe island..if you are a criminal.” A couple that we know had everything stolen from the TRUNK of their rental car while they were at the beach 2 weeks ago. They told me (us at the dive shop)…we should have listened.
oh…I forgot to mention…the police or polis told them that there was nothing to be done…it happens all the time. At the car rental place he was told the perps get “shaken down” by the cops….they get a taste of the “profits”….they have so many damaged cars since the locals know the rental cars and go straight for the trunk. They were told that they would wish folks would leave the trunks open and the doors unlocked to keep the damage down on their cars.
Between the corrupt cops, incompetent prosecutors and moronic judges, justice has no chance in Aruba. The place simply blows.
First of all, can anyone explain to me what in hell this means?
“the judge says that the OM had not proofed that the budgets were overran. The budgets and the annual accounts could not be compared with each other, because there were no approved annual accounts in 1999, 2000, and also 2001.”
Aruba, can’t your so-called journalists learn to write ordinary, comprehensible English? (If you wish to retort that their command of English is better than my knowledge of Dutch and/or Papiamento, I’ll agree, but that’s not the issue.)
Next, does anyone know if this Oduber is kith and kin of big cheese Nelson?
Finally, one wonders if the Dutch had to send in some cash sub rosa … whether or not is no problem of mine, but it would be nice to know.
Richard:
Remember, the Dutch did their investigation into the investigation. Then they sent the ‘Magnificent Ten’ to do a complete search of the Sloot residence and take soil samples from several sources… one being the rock area.
We have yet to hear of a report from either groups of investigators. There was a report, but that was for the year PRIOR to the disappearance of Natalee. Since then Aruba has admitted to the Dutch that it cannot handle it’s own affairs. I’m sure that this budgeting has alot to do with what they told the Dutch. So they have asked for help in humanitarian areas, if my memory serves me right, and the Arubans wanted to stay in control of Tourism and the Casinos.
Such a deal, huh?!?!
Sometimes I wonder who it is that’s really at the stern of this ship called Aruba… and, now, they say they don’t want to bother with Joran anymore and the ‘Dutch’ let him leave the country!
Doesn’t sound like much of a suspect to me.
That’s why I strongly believe that we need to put alot of pressure on the Dutch to release all information. If, indeed, Joran is no longer a suspect; then they should release the case to the family, as is their custom. But, for them to continue ignoring our pleas, means more publicity.
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Queen Bea:
It’s time to get your clothes on!
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Richard:
I’ve always said the lawsuit in California
was going to be ground breaking.
Do we know the status of it?
.
As always, you’re doing a great job!
Thanks, for ALL you do…
Oh, and Richard:
They’re saying there is no accounting of actual money collected, or paid out; to compare to the budget…
No Books.
If there are answers to all this, they lie in that Victorian couplet … which I don’t remember exactly, but goes something like:
Strange that such a fuss should be
Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee.
The Kalpoe – Dr. Phil controversy seems to have faded into limbo, like everything else involved with this case.