ORANJESTAD - Former minister Otmar Oduber was arrested Monday on suspicion of corruption. The Flamingo investigation focuses on fraud in the allocation of government land.
The irregularities are said to have taken place in the period 2017-2019 when Oduber was Minister of Spatial Planning, Infrastructure, and the Environment for the POR in the Wever-Croes I cabinet. He resigned in December 2019 for personal reasons. At that time, rumors arose that the Public Prosecution Service was targeting him.
Oduber was a member of parliament for the AVP from 2001 to 2009. From 2009 to 2016, he was a minister in the Mike Eman I and II cabinets. After an internal struggle for power within the party, he resigned and became one of the founders of the POR party. That party caused the fall of the Wever-Croes I cabinet in March 2021 when it became known that the Public Prosecution Service suspected the party's chairman of embezzling government funds.