WILLEMSTAD, Curacao:--- A team of investigators comprising of officers from the Landsreacherche, the RST, and the local police conducted an early morning raid on Monday at the home of former Prime Minister of Curacao Gerrit Schotte. Schotte is now serving as Member of Parliament in Curacao.
According to information provided to SMN News, the raid started around 6am Monday morning, the home of the former Prime Minister was the first location that was searched where documents and computers were seized.
The investigators then searched the office of Schotte which is located at the House of Parliament in Curacao after that they moved to the main postal branch in Curacao where they searched Schotte's safe and postal box. SMN News learnt that the investigators even searched the head office of Schotte's political party where they seized documents and computers. While several places of the former Prime Minister were searched by a number of detectives the Prosecutor's office in Curacao remain tightlipped on the ongoing investigation and the motive for the searches. SMN News tried to reach the spokesman for the prosecutor and Attorney General Norman Serphos for a comment on Monday but was told that Serphos was on vacation.
The investigators also searched the home of the father of Schotte's girlfriend Mr. Van der Deijs. SMN News learnt that Schotte is suspected of being involved in some sort of fraud, while the investigators believe that he may be linked to the suspects that shot Curacao's MP Helmin Wiels to death earlier this year.
So far, the Prosecutor's Office in Curacao has not made any comments on the searches they conducted on Monday morning. When SMN News contacted Curacao's Prosecutor's Office they said they will get someone to call back SMN News with some information but up to the time this publication was made no one returned the phone call.