September 5 2017
A Curaçao family is suspected of laundering 320 million dollars. “About 10 percent of the island’s gross national product went through the hands of this family,” said a Dutch prosecutor at a court house in the city of Zwolle.
The family participated in a criminal organization and had widely used Venezuela’s “dollar tourism”. For example, criminal Venezuelans bought allegedly goods at one of the family’s businesses, but in fact, they bought US dollars against a commission. The same dollars were then sold again in Venezuela, where foreign currencies are scarce.