Prison worker suspected of
stealing inmates’ money
~ Prosecutor to send her to Curaçao prison ~
PHILIPSBURG--The Prosecutor’s Office may send E.E.R., the female Pointe Blanche Prison administrator from Aruba, to Curaçao’s Bon Futuro prison for pre-trial detention and for her own protection.
E.E.R. is suspected of stealing almost NAf. 200,000, some of which belonged to prison inmates.
“You can imagine what might happen if the inmates learn that there is someone locked up among them who is suspected of stealing their money,” Chief Prosecutor Taco Stein told The Daily Herald on Thursday as he explained why E.E.R. probably would be sent to Curaçao.
She was detained last Friday following an investigation into the disappearance of almost NAf. 200,000. She is currently being held at the Philipsburg police station’s detention facility.
Stein said some of the missing money had been sent to the prison for inmates by their relatives and some was money inmates had earned when they did work at the prison as part of their rehabilitation programme.
E.E.R. has already been seen by the Investigating Judge, who granted the prosecutor’s request to keep her detained for eight days following her first 48-hour detention.
He said that while her transfer to Curaçao could be challenged, he believed it would be in the suspect’s best interest to be sent there.
He also said that for now there was no reason to suspect that others had been involved with E.E.R. in the theft.
