RUDY CROES SUSPECTED OF ACCEPTING BRIBES...MORE ARUBAN CORRUPTION REVEALED
ORANJESTAD — The AVP wants the District Attorney to investigate the alleged irregularities by Justice minister Rudy Croes (MEP). According to the AVP there are more than enough indications that the minister and his colleagues have committed possible misdemeanors, which is why the fraction of the green party handed a letter to the DA yesterday.
In the letter the AVP refers to two articles that appeared in the morning paper Diario and a radio-interview in which it looks as if the minister, or his colleagues, took money to grant permits. The AVP believes these actions should not be seen separate from the previously discovered inconsistencies within the ministry of Justice and the Aruban Immigration and Naturalization Department (DINA), such as the case of the three Dominican ladies that were brought to Aruba contrary to the legal regulations to help in the elections campaign of minister Croes.
In the letter, directed to the Attorney General Theresa Croes-Fernandes Pedra the AVP writes: "As you already know we informed the DA in the last mentioned case of the corruptive practices within the Ministry of Justice and the DINA. We have also reported a felony committed by the minister of Justice, H.R. (Rudy) Croes. You however concluded In said case, without even investigating the matter apparently as the ladies in question were not even interrogated, that there was no just cause for a criminal investigation."
The AVP fraction refers to the letter by the Dutch ministers Ben Bot of Foreign Affairs, Rita Verdonk of Foreign Affairs and Integration, and Alexander Pechthold of Governmental Reform and Kingdom relations dated September 9 to the Governor of Aruba. In said letter the three Dutch ministers request the Governor of Aruba to start an investigation into the "issuance of stay permits" and "the degree in which the minister of Justice makes use of his discretionary authority with the allowance and admittance of foreigners, as this would in fact eradicate the visa duty.
The articles in the Diario published two checks. The first one is signed by 'Aruba Tigers Org. a/o Oslin Quijada' for an amount of 5,000 florins. The article identifies the beneficiary of this check as a government official who works at the bureau of the minister of Justice, according to Diario the right hand and advisor of the minister of Justice. A second check was for 2,500 florins and was made out to Fundacion Pro Rudy Croes. According to both articles the checks were made to fix permits. Allegedly coordinators and campaign co-workers of the minister, Juan Lopez and Edward Croes, stipulated payments from companies to handle and grant work and stay-permits.
Furthermore a businessman stated last week in a radio-broadcast that during a personal conversation with Rudy Croes concerning a work and stay-permit for personnel in his company, he was referred to Croes' cousin Edward Croes. In a conversation with this Edward Croes the businessman was informed that he would have to contribute to the minister's campaign in order to obtain the permits he had requested. The businessman consequently adhered to this condition. According to the businessman several other members of the minister's bureau also had to be paid off in order to obtain other types of permits.
The AVP believes the articles and radio broadcast are indications of felonies committed by Croes and his co-workers. The party urges the DA to start a criminal investigation. The party wants to know from the attorney general if the articles and radio transcripts delivered by them is enough to start a criminal investigation.
In the letter the AVP refers to two articles that appeared in the morning paper Diario and a radio-interview in which it looks as if the minister, or his colleagues, took money to grant permits. The AVP believes these actions should not be seen separate from the previously discovered inconsistencies within the ministry of Justice and the Aruban Immigration and Naturalization Department (DINA), such as the case of the three Dominican ladies that were brought to Aruba contrary to the legal regulations to help in the elections campaign of minister Croes.
In the letter, directed to the Attorney General Theresa Croes-Fernandes Pedra the AVP writes: "As you already know we informed the DA in the last mentioned case of the corruptive practices within the Ministry of Justice and the DINA. We have also reported a felony committed by the minister of Justice, H.R. (Rudy) Croes. You however concluded In said case, without even investigating the matter apparently as the ladies in question were not even interrogated, that there was no just cause for a criminal investigation."
The AVP fraction refers to the letter by the Dutch ministers Ben Bot of Foreign Affairs, Rita Verdonk of Foreign Affairs and Integration, and Alexander Pechthold of Governmental Reform and Kingdom relations dated September 9 to the Governor of Aruba. In said letter the three Dutch ministers request the Governor of Aruba to start an investigation into the "issuance of stay permits" and "the degree in which the minister of Justice makes use of his discretionary authority with the allowance and admittance of foreigners, as this would in fact eradicate the visa duty.
The articles in the Diario published two checks. The first one is signed by 'Aruba Tigers Org. a/o Oslin Quijada' for an amount of 5,000 florins. The article identifies the beneficiary of this check as a government official who works at the bureau of the minister of Justice, according to Diario the right hand and advisor of the minister of Justice. A second check was for 2,500 florins and was made out to Fundacion Pro Rudy Croes. According to both articles the checks were made to fix permits. Allegedly coordinators and campaign co-workers of the minister, Juan Lopez and Edward Croes, stipulated payments from companies to handle and grant work and stay-permits.
Furthermore a businessman stated last week in a radio-broadcast that during a personal conversation with Rudy Croes concerning a work and stay-permit for personnel in his company, he was referred to Croes' cousin Edward Croes. In a conversation with this Edward Croes the businessman was informed that he would have to contribute to the minister's campaign in order to obtain the permits he had requested. The businessman consequently adhered to this condition. According to the businessman several other members of the minister's bureau also had to be paid off in order to obtain other types of permits.
The AVP believes the articles and radio broadcast are indications of felonies committed by Croes and his co-workers. The party urges the DA to start a criminal investigation. The party wants to know from the attorney general if the articles and radio transcripts delivered by them is enough to start a criminal investigation.
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