STATIA - An employee of the Prosecutor’s Office on St. Eustatius has been arrested Thursday.

 

Spokesman for the Attorney-General’s office in Curaçao Norman Serphos confirmed Friday that an employee of the Prosecutor’s Office was arrested on December 10, after two persons filed a complaint at the police department stating they had lost property in that office. After an investigation, suspect B.W. was taken in for questioning on Thursday and released again on Friday.

 

Serphos said the person still remains a suspect and will be questioned whenever needed. The police are still carrying out an investigation into the matter, he added.

 

The investigations into this case are being carried out by a Prosecutor in St. Maarten. The Attorney-General’s spokesman said the case was not handled by a Prosecutor of the Caribbean Netherlands’ Office in Bonaire to safeguard transparency and to ensure that everything will be done according to the law and that no semblance of any cover-up would emerge because it concerns an employee of the Prosecutor’s Office, he said.

 

“No one from Bonaire, St. Eustatius or Saba will be handling this case or be involved in it,” Serphos stated.

 

He explained that the employee in question is working for the Prosecutor’s Office, as well as for the Probation Office.