WILLEMSTAD - Irregularities were found at PSB Bank, part of the new APC Bank, which indicate possible fraud. In connection with this, three employees were placed on mandatory leave during the investigation.
PSB Bank's management has confirmed this, but is unable to provide additional information while the investigation is ongoing.
Those that have been placed on mandatory leave are the (financial) director, the finance manager and the operations manager. Further details are missing. It is reported that some of them are not directly involved in the issue themselves, but the leave of absence is because they have not seen anything for a long time and therefore have not taken any action.
Last May, APC Bank, the banking institution of the General Pension Fund Curaçao, took over all shares of the former Post Spaar Bank.
Guiveron Weert is the director of PSB Bank. Oswin Eleonora is CEO of APC Bank, while Shaffie Wihby is a co-director. In the past year, a "cleaning" was carried out at PSB and the "imperfections" would have been discovered when the 2020 annual accounts were drawn up.