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Buncampers Guilty Of Tax Fraud And Forgery

~Sentenced to 12 months conditional imprisonment~

By Today Newspaper

GREAT BAY – Former Public Health Minister Maria Buncamper-Molanus and her husband Claudius, head of infrastructure management at the Vromi-ministry, have been found guilty of tax fraud to the tune of 80,000 guilders and forgery. The court imposed on both a conditional prison sentence of 12 months and 240 hours of community service.

The court sentenced retired notary Francis Gijsbertha for his role in the Eco Green scam to 240 hours of community service Read more

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Acquittal Of Money Laundering Charges

By Today Newspaper

GREAT BAY – The Court in First Instance acquitted former Public Health Minister Maria Buncamper-Molanus and her husband Claudius of several charges. The first one concerns the sale and purchase agreement of December 19, 2013, whereby Eco Green sold the right of long lease to the parcel of land on Pond Island for $345,000 to St Read more

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Buncamper-Molanus “Should Have Set The Right Example”

By Today Newspaper

GREAT BAY – Maria Buncamper-Molanus was “a well-known politician in St. Maarten who should have set the right example,” the Court in First Instance notes in its ruling that convicts the former minister to a 1-year conditional prison sentence and 240 hours of community service.

Claudius Buncamper – punished likewise – was on the receiving end of a similar reproach: “From a civil servant, we expected a more exemplary behavior.”

The court held against the Buncampers also the way they treated St Read more

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Complete Acquittal For Figurehead Walters

By Today Newspaper

GREAT BAY – Oniel Theodore Walters, the man who was used to serve the needs of the main suspects Maria Buncamper-Molanus and Claudius Buncamper in the Eco Green trial was acquitted of all charges yesterday.

Walters, who posed as the director of the bogus company Eco-Green, was according to co-suspect notary Gijsbertha “a figurehead.”

“The evidence does not show unmistakably that the suspect was aware that the documents that were presented to him for signing were fakes or that he was in fact cooperating with a fake construction with tax evasion as its objective,” the court ruled.

Furthermore, the ruling points out that Walters could not know or understand that what he was getting involved in was illegal.

“He may have understood that co-suspect Buncamper wanted to help him with a little job based on a promise he made to his father Read more

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Fake Land Transfer To Eco Green Designed To Duck Income Tax

By Today Newspaper

GREAT BAY – Former Public Health Minister Maria Buncamper-Molanus and her husband Claudius told the court at the Eco Green trial that they had trusted the advice from (now retired) notary Gijsbertha when they set up the construction with the bogus company Eco Green and that they had no reason to be concerned about its legality.

The court rejected this argument in its ruling yesterday Read more

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