Friday, January 29, 2016

Protection for whistleblowers around Teeven deal – NU.nl

Employees who do so will have the same protection as the whistleblower policy of the Ministry, as assured Minister Ard van der Steur Friday.

The minister reported to the House that the committee of inquiry into the Teeven deal, is now preparing to do new research.

Van der Steur decided to resurrect this committee Oosting new life after the recent revelations about the weather Teeven deal had come out. This shows that somebody within the Ministry ordered the IT staff no longer have to search for the evidence of the amount of the settlement, the so-called ‘receipt’

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According to the minister, the commission will conduct its investigation with “due diligence”. A deadline is not fixed, because of “the importance of a thorough and careful investigation,” Van der Steur.

The committee is fully aware of the express wish of the House that the investigation will be completed within the shortest possible time, according to Van der Steur further.

The Teeven deal led to the fall of the predecessor of Van der Steur, Ivo Opstelten, and Under-Secretary Fred Teeven. Which then hit the million settlement as prosecutor. Also Chamber President Anouchka van Miltenburg was forced to resign in response to the question

By:. ANP

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