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Former VVD
MP and junior minister Robin Linschoten has been jailed for five months, three
suspended, for tax fraud.
The sentence is tougher than the 200 hours community
service and six months suspended jail term called for by the public prosecution
department.
The court said Linschoten, who was junior social affairs minister
from 1994 to 1996, had defrauded the tax office of €100,000 by not declaring
enough in corporate taxes for his companies between 2010 and 2012.
Linschoten
has admitted being careless but said he had not acted deliberately. He also
blamed his accountant.
Linschoten told the Financieele Dagblad in August he is
now as good as bankrupt. Neither Linschoten or his lawyer were in court to hear
the sentence, broadcaster NOS said.
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