DIGITAL COVER-UP: AT LEAST 64 MILLION DOCUMENTS CONTAINING CRUCIAL INFORMATION FOUND AFTER SEVEN YEARS

DIGITAL COVER-UP: AT LEAST 64 MILLION DOCUMENTS CONTAINING CRUCIAL INFORMATION - AFTER SEVEN YEARS - FOUND

State Secretaries Sandra Palmen-Schlangen and Eelco Eerenberg have announced that an investigation is being launched into the digital safe containing at least 64 million documents discovered “in July 2025”. The vault (this is a storage environment closed to employees: the Q drives) contains information that was made untraceable seven years earlier. Not available provided with WOO requests and inquiries. Not available to parents and entrepreneurs who received reviews. Also the House of Representatives of the States General was unaware.

At that time, Menno Snel was politically responsible at the tax authorities, Wopke Hoekstra was Minister of Finance and Mark Rutte Prime Minister. The digital storage environment was protected and, as it turns out, hidden. The Parliamentary Childcare Allowance Interrogation Committee was established on 1 July 2020.

Importantly, this large volume of documents was not searched for the two Parliamentary Surveys (POK and PEFD) for major causes of risk profiling and selection such as CAF, FSV and RAM.

Where do 64 million documents suddenly come from? Who found them? How could these have been lost? What comes out of the table now? What are the consequences? What's going to happen with this?

Reactions:

⭐️ Dogukan Ergin (THINK) 'Unprecedentedly scandalous. The House has been misled and deceived.” Debate requested.

⭐️ Don Cedar: “How is it possible, in a file where transparency and truth-finding are crucial, once again it appears that the provision of information is inadequate. For the thousands of affected parents, this feels like a painful confirmation of what they have been saying for years: that the system not only failed them, but that the search for truth and recovery is structurally hampered. As a representative of the people, I can only say one thing to this: this is unacceptable.

Not only do we need to get to the bottom of how this could have happened, but above all: what information has not been shared, and what does it mean for finding the truth and recovering those affected? '

⭐️ Peter Omtzigt: “With such safes, relevant information is always hidden. Now I understand why relevant documents have always been untraceable. A lot of people must have known about this, so they withheld and concealed it all, up to and including during surveys. This ensures that scandals don't surface and people are crushed. '

The Secretaries of State of Ministry of Finance in any case, they find it very regrettable and argue that this should never have happened.

It is remarkable that, according to a report from the Senate of the States General

Senate of the States General from 2019, it would involve hundreds of millions of files. It states that the Tax authorities takes measures to prevent data from being improperly shared internally. Via excel, for example.

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