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A lawsuit over legal costs incurred by Marco Borsato in his vice case concerned the period before a complaint was filed. Geert-Jan and Carry Knoops had investigated the matter, and Borsato had contacted attorney Knoops by mid-2020, more than a year before the complaint was filed. The legal-cost declaration was dated December 2021.
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Marco Borsato and his lawyers are seeking €391,000 from the Dutch state for legal fees incurred in the sex case in which he was acquitted. They and the Public Prosecution Service still disagree on two points concerning the claim. The parties are due to appear in court on 4 November, as a settlement without judicial intervention is considered virtually impossible.
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A court in Curaçao is examining whether the criminal case against Vernond Rombley should be re-examined. Rombley was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2016 for the murder of a minimarket owner on the island. Lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops argues that Rombley may have been wrongly imprisoned for years. Knoops said experts had determined the likely height of the shooter and that Rombley was seven centimetres taller, which he said supported the case for reconsideration.