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>PHILIPSBURG--- Former Member of Parliament Patrick Illidge did not get good news on Friday morning when the Court of First Instance rendered its verdict in the bribery charges.  The former Member of Parliament was acquitted on the illegal posssesson charges however Illidge was condemned to 18 months imprisonment, six of which are suspended. The former Member of Parliament was also banned from entering politics for the next five years.
Businessman Jaap Van den Huevel owner of Bada Bing night club was charged with offering of bribe, tax fraud, fencing, human/woman trafficking and using vulnerable women for the purpose of prostitution. Van den Huevel was sentenced to 42 months imprisonment, 12 of which are suspended. His company Lunteren also has to pay a fine of NAf.1.5M. The third suspect Krijn van der Brug  in the Orca court case got a nine months suspended sentence, he was sentenced to 240 hours of community service.
Efforts made to reach both Illidge and Van Heuvel proved futile on Friday as they did not answer their phones.

The Prosecutors Office said in an invited comment that they are quite satisfied with the verdicts given by the court. Press Prosecutor Tineke Kamps said that the prosecution intends to study the verdicts in order to use them in other cases.

 Click here to read the decision rendered by the court on Friday morning.

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