In 2019, the Dutch Undersecretary for Finance Menno Snel resigned because of his mishandling of the affair. In 2021, two months before the 2021 Dutch general election, the third Rutte cabinet fell after a report by a parliamentary interrogation committee.[1] That came the same day the Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Eric Wiebes also resigned, as he was responsible in the previous cabinet as Undersecretary for Finance.[6]