OM: This week clarity about the outcome of negotiations with Gerrit Schotte

WILLEMSTAD - The Public Prosecution Service will not clarify until Monday or Tuesday at the latest whether an agreement has been reached with Gerrit Schotte in the case of 1.8 million guilders. That is the amount that the former prime minister has to pay following his conviction in the Babel case, in which he was convicted of official corruption and money laundering. The confiscation case that followed was lost by Schotte on appeal. It was determined that he must pay 1,844,190 guilders (almost one million euros) to the crime fund. If the former prime minister is unable or unwilling to pay that amount, then three years in prison would follow.