Verdonk takes former advisor to court

Rita Verdonk, leader of the nationalist TON party, has filed a complaint with the police against her former advisor Ed Sinke, accusing him of making unlawful payments to his partner of €200,000, reports Monday’s Volkskrant.

She also claims Sinke of using confidential computer data after leaving TON and the disappearance of two safe deposit boxes, the paper says.
At a press conference in The Hague on Sunday night, Verdonk said that although Sinke had agreed to work for her on a voluntary basis, he transferred €216,601 to the account of the management company he runs jointly with his partner Jan Nieuwenhuis.
She said that she knew Nieuwenhuis himself wanted to be paid for his services to TON but not that the money had been made over.
Sinke has denied all the charges. Last month he publicly accused Verdonk of being ‘unprincipled and narcissistic’.