The Breda youth worker Hassan L. was sentenced on Friday to a community service of two hundred hours. The judge finds it proven that he has tampered with subsidy money. He received tens of thousands of euros a subsidy and spent it on private matters, among other things. There is also messy with signatures.
In total, this concerns almost 70,000 euros in a subsidy that L. applied for in 2017 from the ZonMw financing organization. With that money, he wanted the youth from the Breda disadvantaged district high to move more and invest the money in vv Barça, the later SC High Vucht.
That football club was not financially strong, so that the money managed to manage the Moroccan youth foundation, where Hassan L. was chairman. At the Tax Authorities, the alarm bells started ringing in 2020 when the large sum of subsidy was deposited into the Foundation’s account.
Costs do not correspond to actual expenses
According to police investigation, multiple cost items in the budget of the football project did not match what was actually issued. For example, on paper, seven thousand euros would have been spent on sports material and sportswear, but it turned out to be 278.30 in reality.
More than ten thousand euros would also have been paid to a coaching and training institute for young people. Research showed that no expenses had been made at this organization during the project. An amount of more than 44,000 euros was included in cash and private spending emerged that were spent on collection costs, smoking products, games of chance, bailiffs and air travel.
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According to the suspect, it had accidentally gone wrong and an intern had submitted the wrong budget. The judge thought that was not plausible because after his arrest, L. initially relied on the right to remain silent. At that moment he didn’t talk about that. The statement about the trainee only came later.
Forgery
A so -called declaration of intent was also needed to complete the subsidy. That is a document on which the parties involved indicate that they will work together after receiving the subsidy.
That statement would have been signed by various parties, including a director of a primary school, a sports policy officer and the director of the football club. These people testified and said they never put the scribble.
The police found ‘cutting edges’ showing that the signatures of other documents were cut and added to the statement. Since L. was a project leader and the person ultimately responsible for the grant application, he was also found guilty of forgery.
The judge imposed L. two hundred hours of community service with a probationary period of two years. In the sentence it was included that he has never been in contact with the judiciary before and that the case of the case took too long.