“We’ll simply bring that shit to the Netherlands, and we’ll become millionaires,” Sywert van Lienden said in a recorded conversation on 12 April 2020.

At the time, Van Lienden was a municipal official in Amsterdam. In the weeks before that conversation, just after the coronavirus pandemic hit the Netherlands, he set up the Hulptroepen Alliantie. He devised a plan to supply and distribute face masks in the Netherlands.

Van Lienden promised to do this “free of charge” and repeatedly stressed that it is a non-profit initiative.

The Public Prosecution Service suspects Van Lienden of embezzlement, fraud, and money laundering. The authorities have seized their bank accounts and assets in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Luxembourg.

https://nltimes.nl/2022/09/14/recordings-show-non-profit-face-mask-dealers-millions-philanthropy