CURACAO MINISTER OF JUSTICE VERSUS PROCURATOR GENERAL
A Minister should not interfere in a criminal investigation
On 25 April 2012 the Curacao Minister of Justice (‘MofJ‘) Elmer ‘Kadè’ Wilsoe submitted an official request in a letter to the American Minister of Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton to raise the attachment of the bank balances of lottery owner Dos Santos in the United States. Those attachments were made at the request of the Public Prosecutions Department (‘PPD‘) in Curacao in connection with a current criminal investigation (the ‘Bientu investigation‘).
However, a Minister should not interfere in a criminal investigation. Strict rules apply to this. And once a criminal case …
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GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REVISITED
Where these rules not designed to protect companies from the government?
It has been my opinion for many years already that government-owned companies should be kept out of the political sphere as much as possible, so that they may benefit from a commercial, businesslike and market-oriented management. In doing so they also run less of a risk of being milked or used as political toys.
When the current government of Curacao came into power a couple of months ago, it made it very clear, right from the beginning, that it intended to dismiss all and any supervisory directors of both …
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LECTURE ON GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN CURACAO
Corporate Governance Adviser must be a strong and independent watchdog over the executive also
On April 13, 2010 a seminar on Good Corporate Governance with respect to Curacao-owned enterprises and foundations was held in Curacao, and organized by Certa Legal. I was one of the keynote speakers and delivered my presentation in the Dutch language (click here for the presentation or click here for the coverage of the event by the Antilliaans Dagblad).
I argued that government-owned companies should be left out of the political sphere as much as possible, so they can benefit …
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