WILLEMSTAD - Former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte is still negotiating with the Public Prosecution Service about the money he has to pay back. In May he was given two weeks to come up with 1.8 million guilders. Schotte asked his supporters to help him by donating money to his private account. This was eventually discontinued by the bank.
Schotte would have accepted the 1.8 million guilders from the Italian casino boss Francesco Corallo. In exchange for the money, Corallo would get a say in the government. Schotte was convicted for this. He was jailed for three years and banned from running for parliament for five years.