Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they were charging two people with sex offences related to the talent show "The Voice of Holland".

Local media named those charged as the show's bandleader Jeroen Rietbergen, 51, and famous Dutch rapper Ali B, 42, a jury member on the show.

The hit TV show, which spawned a string of international versions, was suspended last year by broadcaster RTL after the allegations first emerged.

A prosecution service statement said an unnamed 41-year-old man was being prosecuted for sexual offences with three women in 2014 and 2018.

Only one of those offences was related to "The Voice of Holland", it said.

It said an unnamed 51-year-old man was suspected of a sexual offence in 2018 "in or around the recording studios where 'The Voice of Holland' was recorded."

The case against a third man, named in media as singer and "The Voice" jury member Marco Borsato, could not be proven and was dropped, prosecutors said.

The claims about abuse at "The Voice" shook the Netherlands and raised questions about the handling of the allegations by the programme's creator, reality TV king John de Mol.

Rietbergen was the partner of de Mol's sister Linda. De Mol admitted last year he had known about the allegations against the show's bandleader since 2019.

The format of the show, which sees coaches in swivelling chairs pick contestants after listening to them sing "blind", has been sold to dozens of countries.