PVV parliamentarian Hero Brinkman drove away from a police alcohol check at high speed with his car headlights dimmed while a serving police officer in 2001, tv news show Nieuwsuur reported on Thursday night.

Brinkman’s car was followed by two police officers who eventually caught him trying to enter his home by the rear entrance. On entering his home, Brinkman grabbed a brandy bottle and began drinking out of it, the official police report of the incident shows.
Brinkman was arrested. The case was eventually settled out of court and Brinkman fined €200, Nieuwsuur said.

Criminal convictions
Earlier on Thursday it emerged Brinkman was the only one of the 150 MP to refuse to tell RTL news if he had a criminal conviction.
Party leader Geert Wilders has not yet commented on the affair. But Brinkman told Nieuwsuur he had been drinking after work and did not ´feel like´ being breathalysed.
Last year, Brinkman was involved in a brawl at the parliamentary press centre and was forced to admit to an alcohol problem.
Brinkman is the sixth of the 24 PVV MPs to come under the spotlight since the June election.
Earlier on Thursday Wilders slapped a six-week silence on MP Jhim Bemmel for lying about his criminal convictions.
Fraud
On Wednesday it emerged Bemmel has a 2006 conviction for fraud involving cargo shipments. Wilders has also taken away some of Bemmel’s parliamentary responsibilities.
‘Van Bemmel may not speak about anything [in parliament] until the end of the Christmas break,’ Wilders told reporters. The recess lasts until January 10.
Last week, James Sharpe resigned following allegations about his business dealings and private life.
Army
Former army sergeant Eric Lucassen has been allowed to stay on as an MP by Wilders, despite lying about his criminal record for having an inappropriate relationship with an army recruit and intimidating his neighbours.
Richard de Mos has been forced to admit he was never a school director as claimed in his official cv and interviews.
In September, former army officer Marcial Hernandez was arrested after reportedly giving someone – said to be a civil servant from the economic affairs department – a head butt in a bar. Police are still investigating.