Legal battle over masks takes a new turn
The criminal investigation into Syd van Lienden, Camille van Gestel and Bernd Damme is moving abroad. The Public Prosecutor’s Office has seized bank accounts in Luxembourg and Switzerland of the trio and houses, cars and art and antiques here in the Netherlands. The total seizure has now risen to 19.5 million euros, a spokesman for the functional prosecutor’s office said. The prosecutor confirms the seizure. For further questions, justice refers back to the Public Prosecutor’s office here. The OM does not want to say exactly what was seized and Han Jahae, lawyer of the mask trio in the criminal investigation, does not yet know. “I haven’t seen the documents yet, they have to come from abroad. As far as the cars are concerned, I know that they are not very luxury cars, in my opinion they are just a BMW and a Tesla.” Jahae is surprised that, after having already seized 11.5 million euros in the Netherlands in April, the OM is now only due to the homes, cars, art and foreign bills. “They weren’t secret accounts, they were in the financial statements and the tax returns, and the gentlemen didn’t try to sneak anything away,” he says. “It was [...]
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