Three men who made millions of euros selling face masks to the government during the coronavirus pandemic will face criminal prosecution, the public prosecution department said on Thursday. Sywert van Lienden and the two other members of the Hulptroepen Alliantie face charges of fraud, embezzlement, forgery and money laundering, the department said in a statement. Van Lienden, Bernd Damme and …
The Public Prosecution Service will prosecute Sywert van Lienden and two other directors of the Stichting Hulptroepen Alliantie. Central to this case is a deal for supplying face masks Van Lienden and his partners made with the Dutch government at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Separately from the criminal prosecution, the Dutch government also sued Van Lienden and his …
Former health minister Hugo de Jonge has made public dozens of pages of text messages from himself and his political advisor about efforts to acquire enough face masks and other PPE at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The move comes ahead of Thursday’s parliamentary debate on the face mask scandal, in which the government paid €100 million for masks …
