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CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FILED WITH THE PUBLIC PROSECUTION SERVICE REGARDING CRIMINAL CONDUCT BY ATTORNEY MERIJN VAN LEEUWEN
On August 26, 2026, attorney Merijn van Leeuwen filed a criminal complaint with the Public Prosecutor at the District Public Prosecutor's Office in The Hague on behalf of the Stichting Herstel Ongekend Onrecht (Foundation for Redress of Unprecedented Injustice) and the Belangenvereniging Gedupeerde Ondernemers Toeslagen/FSV/MKB (Association for Affected Entrepreneurs in the Benefits/FSV/SME sector). The complaint calls for an investigation into potentially criminal acts in violation of the Constitution, specifically the withholding of information vital to parents, entrepreneurs, and their representatives (including journalists, lawyers, and judges). The Benefits department was not the only entity involved in harming families. The hunt for fraud targeting entrepreneurs, which included the use of a population management tool to select parents, is a criminal offense.
'Not my fault': 6-part podcast by Sander't Sas about five years of recovery
THE VICTIMS MUST REMAIN ALERT FOR LIFE On December 5, 2025, Sander't Sas, investigative journalist at AVROTROS's EenVandaag, came to see me. He is working on a podcast about 5 years of recovery surgery. After his initial...
Tens of thousands of people labeled fraudsters based on profiling and “suspected fraud”
RTL News Tens of thousands of citizens had been suffering from “fraud suspicions” for years RTL News/Pieter Klein · July 6, 2020 · Updated: July 7, 2020 In recent years, the tax authorities have had tens of thousands of people as fraudsters...
Aware policy: Service Fees for not providing files
Parents have the right to know whether and why they were considered fraudsters. In the memo, which was published in September 2025, prepared by the Technical Department of the...
“We did not listen enough and cared for our children in the families that faced major recoveries”
LONGREAD CREATED TO STUDY INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN 2022/2023 The conclusion of the January 2023 CBS report should not have read: “The benefits affair has not increased the chance of a child protection measure”, but: “We have...
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE RUTTE CABINET, SIZE IS CLEARER
SCALE OF THE SCANDAL INCREASINGLY CLEAR Five years ago, on January 15, 2021, the Rutte-III cabinet fell. “An historic low point, this part of our national history. A scandal so big. Citizens were wronged and...
'Benefits affair' fraudster still haunts
Paula's mortgage application was not approved © Omroep Gelderland In a new episode of In het Vizier van De Jager, victims of the benefits scandal say that they are still seen as fraudsters. Despite canceled debts and government commitments, they say a “check mark” remains behind their name - with banks, insurers and commercial data agencies. And that leads to major problems.