The Eindhoven city councilor Fatimzahra Chahim (Group Chahim) has been sentenced to nine months in prison, of which six months are conditional. That means she has to go to jail for three months. The judge found her and her ex-partner guilty in a case around several drug offenses and money laundering of criminal money. Her ex, Nabil N. is sentenced to six years in prison for this.
Chahim has been in the Eindhoven city council since 2018. She was in fourth place for the VVD in the 2022 elections. Two years ago she left the group after disagreement. Then she continued as a one -man fraction. In the meantime she would be absent in the council.
In 2019 she became friends with N., who was then stuck for drug possession. He often called her from prison, she visited him several times in 2020. Why he was stuck, says the councilor never had known. “He said it was for something small and I believed that. In my eyes there was a innocent person there,” she said earlier in the court case. After his release they got a relationship. A year later he registered at her address.
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N. was not stuck for something small, but for the trade and import of cocaine blocks from abroad via the port of Rotterdam. Immediately after his release, he continued with that. He also prepared other drug offenses. Based on messages on cryptotphones, it has been proven that he was at least involved until March 2021.
The two have also been convicted of money laundering the criminal money that the man earned. Between May 2020 and January 2024, the two spent much more money than they could based on their income. For example, they renovated their home, bought jewelry and cars and went on vacations.
According to the judge, Chahim was completely aware that it was about criminal money. She had an active role: at the order of her partner, she counted and hid money and put it ready to give to others.
Certainly because Chahim worked as a councilor and civil servant, the judge is very bad for this. Chahim was completely aware of her position, it turned out during the court case: “They had to know,” she sent to her partner.