PHILIPSBURG--“Our names are being trampled on and thrown in the dust,” said project developer Ted Richardson and financial consultant George Willems, whose homes were raided by the Kingdom Detective Cooperation Team RST on Monday. They are suspected of fraud and embezzlement at the government-owned utility company GEBE without having worked there.
Richardson is a former Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication (2014) who, after leaving St. Maarten, returned to the island to take care of his mother who recently passed away after her son had provided for her for the past three years.
“Meanwhile I have been working ...
