WILLEMSTAD - Gerrit Schotte has not yet responded to the opening that the Public Prosecution Service offered the former prime minister to make a payment arrangement. Time is running out. Public Prosecution Service spokesman Guillano Schoop says that the Public Prosecution Service will not wait forever.
At the beginning of May it became clear that the 1.8 million guilders that Schotte has left over from his involvement in official corruption and money laundering should be brought to the table quickly, but that the former prime minister does not have the money, despite a hastily set up fundraising, in which Schotte asked the public to collect the money.
The Public Prosecution Service has practically accepted the request for a payment arrangement by inviting him, but Schotte's lawyer had told the Public Prosecution Service that he was abroad. It has been quiet ever since.
The Public Prosecution Service has already said and now repeats that: a payment arrangement must be in proportion to the debt of 1.8 million guilders. A substantial monthly amount is then required.