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News from the NOS•today, 14:34•Modified today, 16:50
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The Public Prosecutor confirms that mortal remains were found in the case of the Surinamese student Sumanta Bansi (22), who has disappeared since 2018. They are located in a business park in Hoorn. “Further investigation must show whether what was found is actually related to the missing Sumanta Bansi case,” says the prosecutor.
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De Telegraaf reported this afternoon that the man who was convicted of his disappearance and death confessed to the criminal investigation department where he left his remains. “Immediately after the interrogation, the investigators went with Manodj B. to a location in Hoorn”, writes the newspaper.
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Bansi’s family doesn’t know much more than the rest of the Netherlands does, says the family’s lawyer, Maartje Schaap. “They are shocked and emotional.” Whether the remains found really belong to Bansi is a forensic examination to determine. The result should arrive later in the week. “You want clarity, now they get it. So you can close it.”
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Remains found in the investigation into the disappearance of Sumanta Bansi
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42-year-old Manodj B. from Rijswijk was sentenced to 15 years in prison in July for killing Bansi and getting rid of his body. She was having an affair with Bansi and she was pregnant with him for the second time. She had terminated her first pregnancy under pressure from the man, but according to the judge she didn’t mean her second.
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According to the court, it was not plausible that she had voluntarily disappeared or had been harmed. B. denied any involvement. Although she was not found, the court found proved that she had killed her and disposed of her body.
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The court inferred this from the intercepted conversations of him and his family. For example, B. said in a conversation with his brother: “I went through her heart with that thing, dead, done.” After his disappearance became known, he tried to influence witnesses and mislead the police.
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Inquiry required
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Surinamese-Hindustani Bansi studied biomedical sciences at the University of Amsterdam. She moved with the B. family in 2017 and had an affair with her son B., although he was married. She disappeared a year later. She was nine weeks pregnant with him at the time.
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B. was arrested in November 2020. It was suspected that he killed her because Bansi wanted to give birth this time. It was suspected that he had dissolved his body in sodium hydroxide. His bones may not have rotted.
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In October last year, agents and volunteers were still looking for his remains from the De Hulk recreation area near the village of Scharwoude in North Holland. Research had already been carried out there, as well as in a forest near Wieringerwerf and along the Afsluitdijk.
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