Overview
- Keuter received a 55-hour community service sentence, with 30 hours suspended, after the Zwolle court found fraud with net identification marks and the use of illegally long nets.
- Live Seafood was fined €10,000 plus a €5,000 suspended fine, and the court confirmed the offenses were tied to the company’s permit.
- The vessel’s 70-year-old captain, Keuter’s brother-in-law, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service with 40 suspended and fined €500.
- Authorities built the case after 2022 complaints from professional fishers, using a police tracking beacon when the vessel’s mandatory transmitter was disabled, and documented falsified net marks and excessive net lengths.
- Keuter relinquished her seat and BBB faction leadership in Flevoland; she maintains she was unaware of the captain’s actions, was acquitted on a separate notification charge, and is considering an appeal.