Oosting Commission: Teeven deal was not right

That is the main conclusion of the Oosting Commission, set up following the resignation of Minister Opstelten and Minister Teeven in March.

The committee has strongly criticized the content of the deal, which, inter alia that H. had to pay a relatively small fine of 750,000 guilders. Offsetting this 4.7 million guilders he was recovering from a previous amount seized and also a part of his imprisonment did not have to sit out. The Tax Administration was unjustly kept outside the deal, according to the commission.

Teeven said on the day of his resignation as state secretary still the deal was legally sound, and Prime Minister Rutte reiterated later in a debate in the Lower House. But according to the inquiry was the deal with an initial authorization was requested other than the agreements that were eventually made.

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The committee also finds hard on the Ministry of Security and Justice, which has not previously been well. That also led to incorrect information to the House. Minister Opstelten held until the last full that there was not nearly 5 million guilders, but was made ​​a much lower amount of H.. Besides, he hit himself in the count with an amount that was not right.According to him, there was 2 million less paid a fine of 750,000 guilders, resulting in an incorrect sum of 1.25 million guilders.

The Lower House by the incomplete and inaccurate transfer of information at the Ministry of Security and Justice - and between the Ministry and the Public - always put on the wrong track, the Committee concludes Oosting. Incidentally, which started long before the period-Opstelten. In 2002, in response to parliamentary questions already spoken of the incorrect amount of two million guilders.

The committee discusses in detail the events of March 4, 2015, when the TV show Nieuwsuur showed a document showing that the Teeven deal was about 4.7 million guilders. That was just before the provincial elections. VVD minister Schippers said at the time that she found it very coincidence that the receipt middle emerged in the campaign. But the committee says that there are not TS revealed a strategy to put the VVD in the campaign a heel.

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