Cabinet Will Not File Charges, More Investigation Into Benefits Benefits Scandal First

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For the time being, the Cabinet is not filing charges against civil servants at the Ministry of Finance for withholding the 'data vault' containing files on the childcare benefits scandal. A majority in the House of Representatives is accepting this for now. It is true that civil servants are responsible for keeping the data vault containing millions of documents out of sight. However, there is no evidence that they did so "willfully" to withho…

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State Secretary Eelco Eerenberg (Finance, D66) wants nothing to do with filing charges against his own civil servants as long as it is not certain that documents were "willfully" withheld from the parliamentary committees that investigated the benefits scandal. In a parliamentary debate, he called this "an extraordinarily severe measure," requiring careful consideration.