FARID AZARKAN

Azarkan about the ruling on the benefits scandal: 'extremely frustrating'

Author: BNR Webredactie

The fact that the tax authorities cannot be criminally prosecuted for the benefits scandal finds DENK party leader Farid Azarkan “extremely frustrating”, he says in BNR's The Daily Move. “It's a disappointment.”

According to the court in The Hague, criminal law does not offer the possibility of prosecuting the service, despite the “unprecedented injustice” that was done to the victims. Despite the fact that there seems to be no legal way to deal with those responsible, Azarkan wants to try to be able to do that in politics. “Politics has been going on for years. You can also see that the ministry, the secretaries of state, the team around it and the senior officials found that very annoying. '

“Opposed all these years”

He refers, among other things, to the news that the tax authorities knew as early as 2019 that there was racism in the fraud investigations concerning childcare benefits. Nevertheless, the tax authorities continued to deny this for more than a year, despite repeated questions from the House of Representatives. Together with Pieter Omtzigt (independent MP) and Renske Leijten (SP), Azarkan has been trying to clarify exactly what happened in the benefits scandal since 2017. “We've been opposed to all these years, they've always wanted to throw sand in our eyes.”