Three other suspects released from detention in Octopus Investigation but returned to prison on other cases.
PHILIPSBURG:--- The judge of instruction extended the pretrial detention of MP Silvio Master on Friday morning confirmed Spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office Norman Serphos.
So far there is no update on the three other suspects namely Eddie Fleming, Rogielo Koieman, and W.B as soon as that information becomes available The judge of instruction released the three other suspects that were arrested in the Octopus investigation, they are Eddie Fleming, Fleming remains a suspect in the Octopus case, but returned to prison for the hard drugs that was found in his home they day his house was searched while his wife D.F remains a suspect in the cocaine investigation.
Rogielio Koieman, was also released by the judge of instruction on Octopus case but he too had to be sent back to prison for a conviction he had in The Netherlands. Spokesman for the Attorney General Office said the Prosecution in the Netherlands requested that St. Maarten execute the verdict that was handed down in the case in the Netherlands against Koieman. Also released is the fourth suspect W.B who also remains a suspect but he too had to return to Pointe Blanche Prison since he was already serving time in an earlier conviction.
WB, EF and RK were released today regarding the investigation "Octopus", BUT:
- WB was allready a prisoner in the Point Blanche prison and will remain there for his earlier conviction.
- EF was arrested today for the harddrugs that were found in his home during his arrest.
- RK returned to Point Blanche prison today regarding an earlier conviction in the Netherlands. The Prosecutor in the Netherlands has requested to execute the verdict in that earlier case..
Even though MP Silvio Matser was placed on his second term of pretrial detention the articles under which he was charged namely article 244 in the penal code for election fraud and article 279 in the penal code for being part of a criminal organization is not on the list for which of offences for which a parliamentarian can be suspended.
The first ten days while Matser was in custody is considered the period of “garde a vue” while the second pretrial which was extended on Friday is the “détention provisoire” on which a parliamentarian can be suspended if the crime for which he is charged is on the list if the crimes that allows the parliament to immediately suspend the MP. However, in this case the two articles are not on that list therefore MP Matser will resume his duties in parliament the moment he is released from custody.
This is the second time MP Matser manage to dodge the bullet when it comes to being suspended from parliament seen that he was involved in two criminal cases.
