Top criminal lawyer Inez Weski (68) was arrested on Friday. She is suspected of passing on information from her client Ridouan Taghi from the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught to the outside world. That writes De Telegraaf.

Weski would have been arrested in Rotterdam. She is locked in and is being interrogated.

The investigation of the Public Prosecution Service into Weski has been going on for some time and was started in response to decrypted messages from PGP telephones, which, according to the judiciary, show that she may have passed on information from Ridouan Taghi to relatives of Taghi.

The Public Prosecution Service has informed the Dean of the Bar Association of Weski's arrest.