WILLEMSTAD.- Last Monday, the Court of First Instance began with the first hearing in the Troya case. The case was scheduled to be dealt with this entire week, looking at the number of defendants, attorneys and accusations it covers. This is a large case of money laundering that the Public Prosecutor's Office has been investigating since 2015. In this case, the Public Prosecutor's Office accused 6 people who acted as merchants.

These are the defendants R.M.Balarman (India 1966), J.M.R. Vasquez-Ortega (Chile), L.A. González-Zwanenburg (Venezuela, 1984), J.L. de Andrade (Venezuela, 1975), R. del C. Asuaje on behalf of a local company Crown Import & Export. The Court accuses those indicted among others, of money laundering, forgery of documents, making use of forged documents, and operating a money transfer office without permission.

In the Netherlands there was also an investigation with the name 'Cymbal' that includes the Greynztein family of Curaçao. All the accused were present to take responsibility for their actions. Along with them were the lawyers Vaders, Murray, Wilsoe, Martina and Kostrzewski. All the lawyers insisted on listening to the witnesses who were not heard in this case.

According to the Lawyers, they are witnesses who can be very important with respect to their clients. Among the witnesses there are workers of MCB, Central Bank Central and also Giro. The lawyers also requested to listen to Joel Gois, M.Prince, R. Da Costa Gómez, M. De Sola and also M. Isebia.  Yesterday morning, Judge Van Lieshout resubmitted the case to make the decision, if the witnesses are going to be heard. He agreed to listen to the MCB employees and also the merchants. It is about G. Schoop, Prins, Joel Gois and also Isebia that will be heard next Friday.