Kamper Biodiesel Boss Cees B. Has to Be in Jail for 20 Months
by Caspar van Oirschot (DE Stentor (Google Translation)) Owner Cees B. (51) of Biodiesel Kampen has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment, 10 of which are suspended, for falsification of documents and money laundering. His wife Janine B. (47) received a 240-hour work sentence for fraud and money laundering. Biodiesels financial director Jan de M. (54) from Kampen was acquitted and bookkeeper Edwin KS (52) from Wijhe was sentenced to 160 hours.
Biodiesel Kampen, which collects frying fat and processes it into biodiesel, was sentenced as a company to pay a fine of 400,000 euros (requirement was 820,000 euros). Harderwijker Cees B., as the great initiator of the fraud and money laundering, required 38 months. There were thirty of which ten conditional. For wife Janine B. the requirement was 24 months (half of which was conditional). Jan de M. had been demanded for 18 months (six conditionally) and against KS (54) from Wijhe for 16 months (six conditional). The public prosecutor is considering an appeal, the public prosecutor said after the verdict.
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Cees B. and Biodiesel Kampen are not nearly finished with justice after this case. This spring it was revealed that a second, larger criminal investigation is being conducted against Biodiesel Kampen and Cees B. The international investigation is suspected that the company sold long-term and large-scale ‘normal’ biodiesel as more expensive certified sustainable biodiesel. Possibly, in 2015 and 2016, one third of the total amount of sustainable biodiesel (value around 150 million euros) has been fiddled with. That investigation is still ongoing. READ MORE
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