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Municipal Contracts, Lightly Invoiced: Haarlemmermeer Edition

Influential official included. Paperwork was fictional, the sentence was not. 30 months, no returns.

Sold2020Local

more than €350,000As stated in the source: ruim € 350.000

Already sold, in 2020. Nothing on Lobay is for sale.

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Seller

Role: managerial, influential municipal official
Institution: Gemeente Haarlemmermeer
Place: Haarlemmermeer
Country: Netherlands

Item specifics

Condition	Convicted, final (Gerechtshof Amsterdam, 11 March 2020); Hoge Raad rejected cassation on confiscation, 2022
Location	Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands
Seller	Managerial, influential municipal official, Gemeente Haarlemmermeer (unnamed)
Winning bidder	Two entrepreneurs, not named; the convicted one paid through his companies
Category	Other (municipal work)
Payment method	False invoices from the official's own companies, addressed to the entrepreneur's companies
Returns	No returns. Official: 30 months in prison, confiscation € 357.231,00. Payer: fine of 150,000 euros (2020)

Description

What the bribe bought

The Gerechtshof Amsterdam ordered the convicted entrepreneur to pay back his unlawfully obtained advantage: € 110.000,00. What the payments bought: municipal work for the entrepreneurs' companies, put at almost one million euros.

Return on bribe: Every €1 of bribes earned about €0.31.Rough figure: the bribe is stated as “more than”, the gain as “exact”.

What happened

A managerial, influential official of Gemeente Haarlemmermeer received a total of more than €350,000 over 2 years from two entrepreneurs, one of whom was the convicted co-suspect. The payments went through false invoices from the official's own companies, addressed to the entrepreneur's companies, to hide the bribery. The Gerechtshof Amsterdam sentenced the official to 30 months in prison on 11 March 2020 and fined the payer 150,000 euros. The Hoge Raad later rejected cassation on confiscation.

Read the article

30 maanden cel voor omgekochte gemeenteambtenaar, 150.000 euro boete voor omkoper · Rechtspraak.nl (Gerechtshof Amsterdam) · Article in Dutch

Official record

30 maanden cel voor omgekochte gemeenteambtenaar, 150.000 euro boete voor omkoper · Rechtspraak.nl (Gerechtshof Amsterdam) · Article in Dutch

Shipping & returns

Authority	Kind	Amount	Year
Gerechtshof Amsterdam	prison sentence (official)	30 maanden cel	2020
Gerechtshof Amsterdam	confiscation (official)	€357,231As stated in the source: € 357.231,00	2020
Gerechtshof Amsterdam	fine (payer)	€150,000As stated in the source: 150.000 euro boete	2020