WILLEMSTAD - 'Henki' Calmes (61) has to go to jail for fifteen months and may not be on the payroll of the Immigration Service for five years. At least that is the claim of the Public Prosecution Service on appeal.
Calmes was arrested on September 25, 2017 at Hato airport, where he works as a border guard team leader at Immigration.
There he would have stamped the passport of a child of a criminal from Colombia, but did not register it in the border management system.
Calmes was acquitted in First Instance of official corruption, but convicted of possession of cocaine. The judge then sentenced him to community service and a six-month suspended prison sentence with three years' probation.
The Public Prosecution Service appealed, and now demands that Calmes go to prison for fifteen months, minus 35 days in pre-trial detention. Calmes would also be banned from working in his position at Immigration for five years.
The judges on appeal will rule on December 2.