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After the elections in 1680 AN, the newly appointed prime minister Jacques Montrarde and his party, the [[Radicalen]], met with the representatives of the second largest party. The Conservative Monarchist Party followed eagerly to catch those who had abused their power for profit. Mass arrests followed on the company's employees, assets were seized and funds were frozen. The company has been temporarily been banned in Batavia.
After the elections in 1680 AN, the newly appointed prime minister Jacques Montrarde and his party, the [[Radicalen]], met with the representatives of the second largest party. The Conservative Monarchist Party followed eagerly to catch those who had abused their power for profit. Mass arrests followed on the company's employees, assets were seized and funds were frozen. The company has been temporarily been banned in Batavia.


==Trial==
The company and its employees await their trial. Many of them have been brought to prisons all across the country.


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Latest revision as of 16:27, 1 February 2020

Operation Iron was a police investigation, leading to the mass arrest of over 1,100 employees of the Iron Company in Batavia. It followed upon the election of Jacques Montrarde as new prime minister in 1680 AN and the establishment of the coalition government between the conservatives and the radicals. The investigation was a result of a corruption affair that broke out in the Sixth Kingdom in 1680 AN.

Scandal erupts

In 1680 AN, officials of the Cambernon cabinet, which served as an emergency government between 1677 and 1680 AN, discovered a paper trail between the government and the Iron Company. They discovered that the Mackay administration had worked out a plan to outsource the navy to the Iron Fleet. When hearing of this, prime minister Cambernon was shocked by those illegal actions. The Lagerhuis had been left in the dark and even the King, as head of state and commander of the troops, knew nothing about the deal.

Dismayed, and feeling betrayed by the actions of the politicians of Voorwaarts Batavië!, the party suffered heavily. Many of its members, who had been unaware of the deal, left the party or politics all together. Two new leftist parties were established, which were both more radical: Republikeins Links and the Bataafse Arbeiderspartij. The Radicalen, a relative new party, was most successful in gathering the population's vote and support with promises to protect the nation against foreign companies and their exploitation of the Empire's resources.


Police investigation and arrest

After the elections in 1680 AN, the newly appointed prime minister Jacques Montrarde and his party, the Radicalen, met with the representatives of the second largest party. The Conservative Monarchist Party followed eagerly to catch those who had abused their power for profit. Mass arrests followed on the company's employees, assets were seized and funds were frozen. The company has been temporarily been banned in Batavia.

Trial

The company and its employees await their trial. Many of them have been brought to prisons all across the country.