Money laundering added to
Marcel Loor’s list of charges
PHILIPSBURG--The Prosecutor’s Office has now added a charge of money laundering to the list of charges against Police Commissioner Marcel Loor and will take him before the Judge of Instruction today, June 28.
If the Judge finds that the Prosecutor’s Office has sufficient grounds to continue detaining him, Loor will have to serve his second eight-day pre-trial detention at the Pointe Blanche prison.
Chief Prosecutor Taco Stein confirmed Wednesday that his office was “broadening” its investigation to include money laundering.
He said the Judge of Instruction would also rule on a request to have the charge of money laundering added to the list of charges that already includes forgery and accepting bribes as a civil servant.
Investigators are also probing allegations that Loor owned several properties in St. Maarten, but Stein said that to date, no property had been seized. The items seized to date include a large sum of money found in Loor’s bank account, computers from his home and office, documents from both locations and documents pertaining to his offshore companies.
Loor, who was arrested at his St. John’s Estate home on June 19, is being represented by Attorney-at-Law Richard Gibson Jr., who defended his client in court last week and secured a delay of his transfer to Curaçao’s Bon Futuro Prison.
The Judge ruled that Loor should remain in St. Maarten so that he might have contact with his attorney on a regular basis, as the investigation was still in its early stages. However, the Judge said this would only be for the first 26 days of his pre-trial detention.
