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SvPO school buildings seized for 20 million

Nearly 20 million euros have been seized on buildings and plots where four Schools for Personal Education are housed. These buildings are owned by a private foundation owned by one of the SvPO founders. The seizure has been made by the current interim board of the schools.

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The Amsterdam court granted the 'prejudicial attachment' last Friday. This is evident from documents that the Education Magazine requested from the Land Registry. It concerns the former church and presbytery in Deventer, the renovated building in Hoorn and the new construction of the SvPO schools in Hurdegaryp and Geldermalsen.

These school buildings have been thoroughly renovated or newly realized by the previous school board. According to According to the Education Inspectorate, almost 16 million euros in education money has been illegally invested in the four real estate projects. In addition, parental contributions - intended for language trips and school costs - are also used to finance accommodation.

This publicly financed real estate is in the name of the Foundation for Personal Education. This is a private vehicle set up by SvPO founder Misha van Denderen to facilitate the schools. This foundation also collected the parent contributions. For years, Van Denderen was chairman of this foundation. Since August, the foundation has been managed by his wife, Suzan Polet, who is co-founder of the schools. By placing the housing there, this foundation according to the inspection 'enriched'.

Lawsuit

Prejudgment attachment is a way of temporarily securing ('freezing') the assets of (legal) persons in anticipation of a court case. The Land Registry documents also show the four claims that form the basis for the attachment. From this it can be concluded that the interim board of the schools is demanding a total of 19.967.500 euros from the Foundation for Personal Education.

When asked, the interim board confirms that it has started legal proceedings, but does not want to say anything about it.

The five-member interim board trad last June on the recommendation of education minister Dennis Wiersma to put things in order, after Van Denderen was under pressure from a clue stepped up. The minister decided to intervene after the inspectorate concluded that there was financial mismanagement.

Wiersma came across the bridge with 1,2 million euros in extra financial support for the new school board to implement changes. This week, the House of Representatives called a motion to explore "all possible legal steps" to recover money wrongly spent.

earlier this school year clearly that the SvPO schools will continue under a different name: Schools for Personal Secondary Education.

The Education Magazine reconstructed in March how the publicly funded real estate of the four schools ended up in private hands. Read also other articles about this topic on this site.

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