WILLEMSTAD - The PIN (Partij voor de Inovashon Nashonal) party, led by Suzanne Römer, has strongly reacted after the Public Prosecutor's Office publicly announced that she will not be prosecuted. According to the Public Prosecutor, although she was guilty in 2015 of not reporting secondary functions when she became a minister and of antedating Chamber of Commerce deregistration documents to conceal them, prosecution is no longer opportune at this time.
According to PIN, there is no reason for the Public Prosecutor to prosecute her after three years of investigation. Still, in a press release, the Public Prosecutor's Office stated that given the time elapsed in this case and the current reduced importance of continued prosecution, it has been decided to drop the case and not proceed with prosecution.
For clarification, the party points out that the former formateur (government formation official) at that time had a good overview of the activities in which Suzanne Römer was involved and made no remarks that Römer should be concerned about anything. However, PIN fails to mention that the formateur was not aware that Römer, when she became Minister of Traffic, Transport, and Spatial Planning, was still registered as the director of Blue Liaison Real Estate. She only removed her name from the Chamber of Commerce register in October 2015, but she indicated the date as October 2014, creating the appearance that she had removed her name before her ministerial appointment.
According to PIN, Römer had transferred her shares in 2013, and the company's directors – not Römer – had neglected to remove her name from the Trade Register until a few months after she became the Minister of VVRP in 2015. The party led by Römer states that there is nothing left of the avalanche of accusations that were brought against Römer, especially by political opponents from 2017 to 2020.
The party regrets that the Public Prosecutor's press release is not complete and that the letter they received from the Public Prosecutor contains important information that points to the innocence of the former minister. However, this letter has not been released by PIN.