Businessman faces €111m claw back claim after bribery case
The public prosecution department is trying to claw back €111m from Dutch businessman Joep van den Nieuwenhuyzen which he is said to have earned from corruption.
The figure is the highest ever claimed in a ‘claw back’ case, news agency ANP says on Thursday.
Van den Nieuwenhuijzen was jailed for one year and fined €150,000 for bribery on appeal last year, but found not guilty of bankruptcy fraud.
He was arrested in October 2007 in Switzerland on fraud charges connected to the bankruptcies of several companies and bribing the former Rotterdam port chief, Willem Scholten.
The bribes consisted of use of an Antwerp apartment and €1.2m in a secret Swiss bank account. In return, Scholten gave Van den Nieuwenhuijzen’s businesses guarantees of some €180m without getting proper approval.
Scholten was also found guilty of accepting bribes last year.
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