Former VVD politician Ton Hooijmaijers needs of the Amsterdam Court shorter than the cell in the District Court of Haarlem. The Amsterdam Court sentenced the former deputy of the province of North Holland appealed Tuesday to two and a half years in prison for corruption, counterfeiting and money laundering. That’s half a year less than three years in prison where the Haarlem court Hooijmaijers had sentenced to earlier.
The court considered it proven that Hooijmaijers has bribed eleven, thirteen times has committed forgery of documents and € 276,000 has laundered. The court speaks Hooijmaijers some other facts freely, which the court Hooijmaijers had earlier condemned.
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The Public Prosecutor (OM) upheld on appeal the requirement of an unconditional prison sentence of four years at Hooijmaijers. Four years in prison is necessary according to the public because of the “extraordinary seriousness and extent” of the corruption of Hooijmaijers. It is the largest official corruption affair in the Netherlands so far.
The court condemned the conduct of Hooijmaijers as “a serious breach confidence in political directors. But a lower sentence, according to the appropriate court because Hooijmaijers and his family suffered for five years by the prosecution. Hooijmaijers according to the court now “a social pariah. The penal goal retaliation is partly been realized, according to the court.
Daily management
Hooijmaijers sat as commissioner of North Holland in the daily administration of the province. He had the heavy wallets finance and planning. Previously he was an alderman in Amsterdam. Of the € 1.8 million received Hooijmaijers politician companies, classified the OM six tons as bribe.
Hooijmaijers tried appealed largely to plead his innocence. Here and there he was just a little sloppy with the receipts, but that was all in his charity, his election campaigns as VVD candidate. Hooijmaijers also argued that his prosecution is unfair because his alleged corrupters not be prosecuted. The court rejected that defense “because of similar cases is no.”
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In return for directly or indirectly receiving bribes granted Hooijmaijers according to the court directly or indirectly favors. These are according to the court for improper relationships Hooijmaijers as a politician with the project include Prince Luigi, Ted Biesterbos and Gijs de Jager. The same court passes judgment regarding relationships of Hooijmaijers with real estate companies around such as Schiphol, contractors, Ballast Nedam and the former Fortis Bank. In exchange for bribes Hooijmaijers would banker shelf of the province have been awarded to Fortis.
According to the court Hooijmaijers accepted a promise of a million guilders an intermediary who in return demanded that the politician for a construction project in Amstelveen real estate entrepreneur Harry Muermans would lobbying. The court granted Hooijmaijers who actually favor in return.
The wife of Hooijmaijers was director of the BV which Hooijmaijers left a lot of money transfer. She has previously been acquitted by the court as co-defendant of her husband. The court also expresses her free again. The prosecution demanded that the partner Hooijmaijers yet for aiding a maximum of 240 hours of community service would be imposed. The prosecution demanded her besides a suspended prison sentence of three months.
Community service
A third suspect, the owner-manager of Van de Kamp Brokerage, was sentenced by the Court to the maximum of 240 hours of community service. He has been guilty of falsifying and money laundering. The court had earlier imposed a lower him 180 hours community service.
The three suspects were not today when pronouncing the judgment present . It is the first time that Hooijmaijers fails to appear at his trial.
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