WILLEMSTAD - The public prosecutor has requested notary Steenbaar to proceed with the auctioning of the real estate of the Dutch businessman Robert de Groot. He was laundering money with his company Wilshire Advisors.
De Groot was also called the 'Mayor of Campo' or 'Mr Wilshire'. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he allegedly laundered money with his drug income in the open-air brothel Campo Alegre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It concerns the so-called Tartaros case.
At the time, an amount of approximately 4 million guilders was invested in the renovation of Campo via the Wilshire Advisors company. At the time, the Plaza hotel, the motor ship Seamaster and Baya Beach Club were also bought with illegally obtained funds. He is also said to have traded in real estate in the Jan Sofat neighborhood.
De Groot must pay the state 14.2 million guilders. The court already determined this in 2013. The investigation into the Tartaros case started in 2008. The reason the investigation took so long was because 'ingenious and opaque constructions of legal entities at home and abroad had been set up'.
De Groot was also detained for a sex offense during the investigation.