Prosecutor to compensate extortion case victims for leaking their addresses
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) will compensate over 100 victims in the extortion case surrounding the fruit trader De Groot in Hedel for leaking their address details to criminals. The amount of the compensation was not disclosed, AD reports based on revelations from author Yelle Tieleman in his new book De Hedelse afpersingszaak.
The OM accidentally added a list of names and addresses of 350 employees and former employees of De Groot to the criminal file in the case against a group of suspects accused of extorting the company following a botched cocaine import. The fruit trader’s lawyer, Taco van der Dussen, discovered the blunder in the autumn of 2019. The suspects arrested for extorting the fruit trader also received copies of their files, including the list of employees’ names and addresses.
