WILLEMSTAD - The Minister of Health, Environment and Nature (GMN) Dorothy Pietersz-Janga has ordered an investigation into two ex-board members of the Foundation Bureau for Medical Expenses (BVZ) to be halted. The liquidators of the foundation have reacted with astonishment to the minister's request.
Following several irregularities, legal proceedings were launched against former executives Alli Abdalah and Milton Yarzagaray in connection with claiming government funds that have been misappropriated. Henry Jourdain and his office were also included in the investigation. The Court previously ruled that Abdalah and Yarzagaray, as chairman and secretary of BVZ, had acted in violation of the law in the period from 2011 to 2013.
At the time, the liquidators Etzel Rosenda and Myron Christina were given the task of recovering from Yarzagaray and Abdalah the damage suffered by the foundation as a result of default and irregularities of the former board members. The minister issued a letter last week instructing the liquidators to 'fully and unconditionally withdraw' the claim cases. In addition, Pietersz-Janga wants the foundation to distance itself from all judgments won against Adbalah, Yarzagaray and Jourdain.
Rosenda and Christina have informed the minister that they do not consider her request to be binding. "The instruction is contrary to the public interest and we will therefore certainly not heed Pietersz-Janga's letter." According to them, the minister is not authorized at all to order the investigation to be dropped.