HippoItem getBean() returns unpublished version of the bean

I've been upgrading our Hippo 7.7 project to Hippo 10.
Since there has been a lot of changes in the repository this upgrade is a challenge.

However I think I've come across the following problem.
When I call

// opleidingen/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor
HippoBean bean = contentRoot.getBean(relPath);

The getBean method returns a bean with path:
opleidingen/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor

in most cases this is the right one, but in this case the bean with path
opleidingen/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor

is an unpublished version of the bean. The published LIVE version has a path:
opleidingen/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor[3]

And there is also a published DRAFT version with path
opleidingen/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor/chemie-breda-voltijd-bachelor[2]

The bean(s there are more with this problem) are created through an importer program, so I'm looking into the way the beans are create, maybe there the problem occurs, BUT I would assume that the getBean method would check of the right version of the node to convert to the bean.