The two reports into Gerrit Zalm’s performance while chief financial officer at DSB bank are to remain confidential, caretaker finance minister Jan Kees de Jager told parliament on Wednesday evening.

MPs want to see the reports – one by the central bank and one by the financial services regulator AFM – because they reached sharply different conclusions about Zalm’s role at DSB, which went bankrupt last year.
Zalm is now CEO at the nationalised bank ABN Amro. The central bank said Zalm could stay in the job, but the AFM said he should resign. De Jager sided with the central bank after a third advisor – Michiel Scheltema – said the AFM’s conclusions were weak and not supported by the evidence.
The minister told MPs on Wednesday the reports would stay secret because they contained confidential information. MPs had said they wanted to reach their own conclusions.
According to the NRC, MPs are planning to invite Scheltema for talks in the near future.