WILLEMSTAD--Curaçao's Minister of Justice Elmer "Kadè" Wilsoe (PS) says he will order Attorney General Dick Piar to stop what he considers the illegal investigation and prosecution of lottery boss Robbie dos Santos in the so-called "Bientu" (Wind) case.
In a memo dated May 11 to Parliament, the minister said he would issue a so-called "general instruction" to that effect. Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports suggest that in addition to Dos Santos, Finance Minister George "Jorge" Jamaloodin (MFK) is also a suspect in the illegal lottery, fiscal fraud, forgery and money laundering probe.
Wilsoe titled his letter to the legislature "a report on the relations between the Justice Minister and the Attorney General." He accused Piar of insubordination, conscious misleading and -information as well as punishable acts.
The minister said it is up to the Director of Taxes to start an investigation when fiscal laws are violated. Since no such action was taken, there wasn't any transfer of an investigation to the Prosecutor's Office either, he argued.
He said Piar had misled him into believing that the probe was initiated at the request of- or at least in consultation with the Director of Taxes. "I meanwhile have written confirmation from the director that also here it involves a case whereby the prosecution purposely made up things and gave me wrong information," Wilsoe wrote.
He also announced that he would propose legislation to end the Kingdom Consensus Laws regarding the prosecution that went into effect when the Netherlands Antilles was dismantled effective 10-10-10.
The minister called it "sad that the prosecution should now have to prosecute itself." As the "political boss" involved he could not tolerate all of this.
"Certainly from the Prosecutor's Office I will not accept insubordination and/or undermining authority. The prosecution must obey the law at all times. In any case I do not have any confidence anymore in the attorney general," he wrote, announcing as his next step the instruction to halt the Bientu-case.
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