WILLEMSTAD – HNO Vastgoed en Beheer was formally involved with the former Sehos complex months before the property was sold to private investors, according to notarial documents that shed new light on the history of the controversial transaction.
The June 30 transfer deed shows that a lease agreement had existed between the Sehos bankruptcy trustee and HNO Vastgoed en Beheer since October 15, 2025.
When Otrabanda Village B.V. purchased the former hospital property on June 30, 2026, it did so with knowledge of the existing lease.
The documentation is significant because it establishes that HNO Vastgoed's involvement with the site did not begin after the Curaçao government developed an interest in acquiring the property. The company had already been formally connected to the complex for more than eight months before the private sale.
The disclosure comes as Parliament seeks greater clarity over how the former Sehos complex moved from the bankrupt Stichting Sint Elisabeth into private hands and, according to Minister Charles Cooper, subsequently into government ownership.
Cooper told Parliament Monday that Curaçao originally offered XCG 15 million for the complex. The bankruptcy trustee nevertheless sold two parcels to Otrabanda Village for XCG 10 million.
According to Cooper, the government subsequently negotiated with the private buyers and eventually obtained the property for XCG 13 million.
The available deeds leave important parts of that account unresolved.
Six days after acquiring the two parcels, Otrabanda Village sold one of them to Kunuku Aqua Resorts Holding B.V. for XCG 4 million. From July 6 onward, the original Sehos property was therefore divided between two private companies.
A later deed documenting the government's reported XCG 13 million acquisition has not been included among the records reviewed so far.
That documentation would help answer several outstanding questions, including when the government made its XCG 15 million offer, what conditions were attached to it, whether the supervisory judge knew about the offer before approving the private transaction, and precisely which property the government eventually acquired.
It would also clarify how the reported XCG 13 million price was constructed after the complex had already been divided between two private owners.
The government has not disputed that the initial private sale occurred for XCG 10 million. Instead, Cooper has questioned why that transaction proceeded when, according to him, the Country of Curaçao had offered XCG 5 million more.