CURACAO MINISTER OF JUSTICE VERSUS PROCURATOR GENERAL

A Minister should not interfere in a criminal investigation

On 25 April 2012 the Curacao Minister of Justice (‘MofJ‘) Elmer ‘Kadè’ Wilsoe submitted an official request in a letter to the American Minister of Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton to raise the attachment of the bank balances of lottery owner Dos Santos in the United States. Those attachments were made at the request of the Public Prosecutions Department (‘PPD‘) in Curacao in connection with a current criminal investigation (the ‘Bientu investigation‘).

However, a Minister should not interfere in a criminal investigation. Strict rules apply to this. And once a criminal case …
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May 2012
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