May 1st, 2007: Jody Newman the former UnifiedRoot Representative to Turkey denied allegations of any wrong doing on the part of the UnifiedRoot in a tax fraud investigation conducted by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (Openbaar Ministerie) against Rene Rijntjes and Rob van de Voort. Both Rijntjes and van de Voort were directors in TMF Group the largest trust company in the Netherlands. TMF provides management services to UnifiedRoot.

"The investigation involves personal tax issues", said Newman who emphasized that the UnifiedRoot is not involved. Newman went on to say that Rijntjes and van de Voort left the UnifiedRoot. According to Newman the other investors in the UnifiedRoot found out about the investigation and asked them to leave, "and they did" he said. Rijntjes and van de Voort also resigned their board seats as directors of TMF this past month.

The investors left behind are Gerrit te Spenke and Andre Boekhoudt both partners in KPMG Meijburg & Co. Boekhoudt in a previous interview this past March 2006 with Dutch journalist Peter Olsthoorn made a number of false statements concerning the origins of the UnifiedRoot. The UnifiedRoot was incorporated shortly after Joe Baptista, the PublicRoot Representative, went public with his investigation of INAIC and UNIDT. Boekhoudt denied the UnifiedRoot was in any way associated with these organizations. UNIDT sold it's TLD business to UnifiedRoot in 2005.

Newman expects the UnifiedRoot will make a formal statement to either the Top Level Domain Association (TLDA) or Joe Baptista the PublicRoot Representative on the investigations against Rijntjes and van de Voort. Eric Seeboldt CEO to the UnifiedRoot was contacted today but had no comment to make on the incident. He refused to confirm or deny any statements made by Newman to the PublicRoot Consortium.

Related Stories (Dutch)
- UnifiedRoot investors investigated by Dutch Public Prosecutor for tax fraud., April 18, 2007.
- Oud-bestuurders TMF Group vervolgd, April 16, 2007.
- OM vervolgt voormalig bestuurders TMF Group, April 16, 2007.