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Willem Holleeder is te gast. Willem Holleeder groeit op in de Amsterdamse Jordaan, onder het bewind van zijn zeer strenge vader, die z'n leven lang voor Heineken werkte.

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The Netherlands’ most notorious gangster: Willem Holleeder

Willem Holleeder is a convicted Amsterdam gangster, whose rap sheet runs from a high-profile kidnapping, extortion, and at least 25 murders.

Holleeder, nicknamed De Neus for his gigantic nose, was born in 1958 in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Jordaan. 

Yet from his humble beginnings, he quickly became a crime boss — and ended up with a string of criminal charges that have left him imprisoned for life after being incriminated by his own sisters. 

So who was this Al Capone of Dutch crime scene?

BREAKING: On June 24, 2022, Willem Holleeder has been sentenced to life in prison. Holleeder has been found guilty of the murders of five people, the participation in activities related to organised crime, and other charges, reports NU.nl

De blik van die man ook. Brrrrrr. Hoeveel geld en mankracht is justitie nu onderhand al kwijt geweest aan deze man, en hoeveel zijn ze opgeschoten? > Hoger beroep Willem Holleeder in zaak Vandros https://t.co/OWtb4QK4qf pic.twitter.com/unPyvNTaXH — Cortés (@Cortes) November 17, 2020

The start of a criminal career

Willem began his career in crime in the 70s, by forming a gang composed of his friends Jan Boellaard , Frans Meijer and Cor van Hout . 

The gang was part of vigilante groups that attacked squatters on the behalf of homeowners and developers.

Willem’s gang even committed a spectacular speedboat-assisted armed robbery of a money order office in Amsterdam — but were never formally caught and charged. 

However, his most notorious crime — and one of the most famous in Dutch history — was the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the CEO of Heineken and one of the richest men in the Netherlands. 🍻

Kidnapping of a beer boss

On November 9, 1983, Heineken was leaving his office in Amsterdam just before 7 PM. 

As he met with his driver, Ab Doderer, the two were suddenly ambushed by four armed men: Holleeder, Van Hout, Meijer, and Boellaard. 

The kidnappers abducted Heineken and his driver, taking them to a holding location in a business park in the Amsterdam harbour. 

The criminals had planned the kidnapping almost two years in advance, building a false wall in a long, galvanised steel working shed to hold their prisoners. 

The kidnappers demanded a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders (around €15.8 million today) for the release of the two men.

They contacted police through advertisements in the newspaper, cassette tapes, and even through pseudonyms. Meanwhile, Heineken and Doderer were kept chained to a wall in the shed.

Two weeks after the kidnapping, Heineken’s family met their demands and handed over the ransom, against the advice of the police. It was the highest ransom ever paid for a kidnapping victim at the time. 💰

But guess what? It turns out, you can’t actually trust criminals. 😅 The kidnappers grabbed their ransom and then ran away — without releasing Heineken and his driver from the secret shed. 

However, thanks to an anonymous tip, a police agent was able to come and rescue the men on November 30. 

Holleeder and Van Hout hit the road, fleeing to Paris. Just three months later they were arrested by French police. They fought extradition to the Netherlands for almost three years, before being returned in October 1986. 

In 1983, Holleeder was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for the kidnapping. Yet when he emerged, he was far from reformed. 

READ MORE | 7 notorious Dutch criminals that will leave you shaking in your clogs

The crime boss’s dramatic return

All that money that Holleeder had snagged as part of Heineken’s ransom? Well, several million guilders were never found. It’s believed that Holleeder and Cor van Hout, who was now Holleeder’s brother-in-law, used these funds for their new extortion empire. 

He got into business with real estate mogul Willem Endstra, but when Van Hout was killed in 2003 their relationship deteriorated.

This is where it gets cold-blooded. Endstra reportedly secretly testified against Holleeder to the police, linking him with around 25 murders — including Van Hout’s. 

But in yet another killing, Endstra was shot dead in broad daylight near his office in 2004. Holleeder and his then partner-in-crime are believed to have ordered the hit. The two were also linked to another deadly shooting, of John Mieremet in Thailand in 2005. 

Willem #Holleeder tijdens het requisitoir in het hoger beroep van zijn strafzaak. Vastgelegd door @PetraUrban pic.twitter.com/Exsg8bE8wy — Saskia Belleman (@SaskiaBelleman) November 25, 2021

Holleeder ended up back in a courtroom in 2006 linked with the deaths. At the trial, lawyer Bram Zeegers testified that Holleeder had extorted millions of euros from Endstra. However, just one week after the testimony, a drug overdose left Zeegers dead. 

During the trial, another body was added to the count: linking Holleeder to the alleged involvement in the murder of a Yugoslavian drug dealer. 

After being found guilty of extortion (yep, just extortion), Holleeder was sentenced to nine years in prison, of which he served six. 

From criminal to celeb

Despite protests from politicians who didn’t want Holleeder to become glorified, upon his release, Holleeder jumped headfirst into the media. 

First, he appeared on College Tour, a TV show that uses an audience of a few hundred people to interview high-profile guests. 

Then, Holleeder collaborated with Dutch rapper, Lange Frans, to release a record titled Willem is terug (“Willem is back”). 

Finally, Holleeder began to publish a weekly column for the Dutch general interest magazine Nieuwe Revu. 

For the princely sum of €2,000 per column, the crime boss wrote about his daily life, experiences, and things he found interesting. Luckily, Holleeder never saw the money — the justice department confiscated it immediately. 

Betrayed by his sisters

As Holleeder rose after his stint in prison, police kept a close eye on him — thank goodness. He became suspected of the extortion of Theo Huisman, the ex-president of Hells Angels Holland’s Amsterdam chapter. 

In May 2013, a huge police sting with 450 police and army personnel was successful in nabbing Holleeder, but a trial against him was unsuccessful.

Two years later, Holleeder was again sitting in jail. Here, he was visited by his sister, Astrid, who was fearful that Holleeder would have her killed. 

To help bring him down, she collaborated with the police by secretly recording his confession on a visit. Holleeder’s other sister, Sonja, who was married to Van Hout, also gave evidence against her brother. 

Astrid’s fears were well-founded. Holleeder later had even more charges laid against him for allegedly ordering hits on Astrid, Sonja, and Peter R. de Vries , a well-known crime journalist and a witness against Holleeder in his trial. 

Holleeder had allegedly solicited the killings from two members of a Curaçao gang, one of whom informed authorities about the plot. However, the gang member later recanted his confession, potentially under pressure from Holleeder. 

Life in prison

At the ripe old age of 61, Willem Holleeder, Amsterdam gangster, was ordered in 2019 to serve life in prison. His official rap sheet included: 

• The fatal shooting of Sam Klepper in 2000
• The murder of Cor van Hout, his friend, brother-in-law, and ex-accomplice in 2003
• The death of Willem Endstra in 2004
• The shooting and death of Kees Houtman, a drug dealer, in 2004
• The death of Thomas van der Bijl, a family friend, in 2006

Holleeder achter de tralies kost maatschappij ruim 89.000 euro per jaar https://t.co/UczUDbrnQQ pic.twitter.com/lHxW9Y4AB5 — RTL Z (@RTLZ) July 4, 2019

Holleeder was also found guilty of ordering a 2002 attempted murder, and the manslaughter of Rober ter Haak who died of bullet wounds in the same attack that killed Cor van Hout. 

Today, Holleeder remains behind bars.

Got a thought about Willem Holleeder? Leave it in the comments below!

This article was co-written by Nicole Ogden and Samantha Dixon

This article was originally published in February 2022 and was fully updated in June 2022 for your reading pleasure.

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The capital city of Kirov oblast: Kirov .

Kirov Oblast - Overview

Kirov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia located in the central-eastern part of European Russia, part of the Volga Federal District. Kirov (former Vyatka) is the capital city of the region.

The population of Kirov Oblast is about 1,235,000 (2022), the area - 120,374 sq. km.

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History of kirov oblast.

Vyatka land was inhabited in ancient times (about 50-15 thousand years ago). In the second half of the 1st century AD, a number of Udmurt, Mari, Komi tribes began to form in the region on the basis of the Finno-Ugric language community. Most of the area was covered with virgin forests and swamps. The main occupations of the population were agriculture, cattle-breeding and hunting.

At the end of the 12th - early 13th centuries, Russians began to settle in vacant land among the Udmurts and Mari. In the second half of the 13th century, Russian influx on Vyatka increased in connection with the Mongol-Tatar invasion.

Vyatka was first mentioned in chronicles in 1374. In the 1370s, this region became part of the Nizhny Novgorod principality. In 1393, the principality was annexed to the Duchy of Moscow.

The favorable geographical position contributed to the development of productive forces, the growth of agriculture, industry and trade. In the 16th century, this land was on the first places on the intensity of settlement and economic development.

More historical facts…

At the end of the 16th century, the Siberian Khanate ceased to exist and Vyatka lost the status of the borderland. It became a link between the Central, Volga and the Ural-Siberian regions of the Russian state.

During the reign of Boris Godunov, during the Time of Troubles, Vyatka for the first time was used as a place of exile. In the middle of the 17th century, Khlynov, with the population of about 4,400 people, was the largest town in the north-east of European Russia.

In 1719, the Vyatka province was founded as part of the Siberian gubernia. In 1727, the province became part of the Kazan gubernia. In 1780, Vyatka governorship with the center in Khlynov was formed. On this occasion the town received a new name - Vyatka. In 1796, Vyatka governorship was transformed into a province.

In the 19th century, the province remained a place of political exile. In the 1830-1850s, a lot of the Poles, who took part in the uprising of 1830-1831, were exiled to Vyatka. In 1835-1837, Alexander Herzen lived in Vyatka, which had a profound impact on the local social and cultural life. In 1848-1855, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin was in exile here.

In 1934, Vyatka was renamed Kirov in honor of Sergei Kirov, a Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and political figure who was killed on December 1, 1934. During the Second World War, more than 600,000 residents of Kirov Oblast served in the Red Army, 257,900 of them were killed.

Beautiful nature of Kirov Oblast

Vyatka - the land of lakes and rivers

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Cold taiga landscape in Kirov Oblast

Golden autumn in the Kirov region

Kirov Oblast - Features

Kirov Oblast is located in the north-east of the East European Plain (Russian Plain). It extends 570 km from north to south and 440 km from west to east and borders with nine other subjects of the Russian Federation; it is a record.

The distance from Kirov to Moscow is 956 km by roads. The Vyatka River is the main river of the region.

The climate is temperate continental. Winters are usually long and cold, summers are short and warm. The proximity to the Arctic Ocean leads to the possibility of invasion of cold air. Hence severe frosts in winter and sudden cooling in summer are common. The average temperature in January is about minus 13,5-15 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 17-19 degrees Celsius. Kirov oblast is situated in the taiga zone with rich flora and fauna.

The Day of Kirov Oblast is celebrated on the second Sunday of December. The largest cities and towns of the region are Kirov (523,500), Kirovo-Chepetsk (67,000), Slobodskoy (31,000), Vyatskie Polyany (31,000), Kotelnich (22,000), Omutninsk (21,000), Yaransk (15,000), and Sovetsk (14,800).

Railways cross the territory of the Kirov region connecting the central part of Russia with the Urals, Siberia and the Far East (the Trans-Siberian Railway), northern regions with southern ones (“Kirov-Kotlas”). The main waterway is the Vyatka River.

The basis of the resource potential of the region consists of forests (primarily coniferous), phosphorites, peat, furs. Forests cover more than half of the territory of Kirov Oblast. The total amount of forest resources is about 1.2 bln. cubic meters.

There are a lot of peat deposits and resources of non-metallic mineral raw: limestone, clays, sands, and gravel. The largest in Europe Vyatsko-Kamskoye deposit of phosphorites is located here. The region is also rich in mineral springs and healing mud.

The main industries of the local economy are machine building and metalworking, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical, microbiological, forest, woodworking, pulp and paper, light, food, and peat industries.

Livestock, mainly milk and meat production, is the basis of local agriculture. The main cultivated crops are grains, potatoes, flax, and vegetables.

Tourism in Kirov Oblast

Kirov Oblast has a variety of natural, historical and cultural attractions. Twelve ancient towns and villages have great potential for tourism: Kirov, Orlov, Urzhum, Malmyzh, Sovetsk, Kotelnich, Slobodskoy, Yaransk, Nolinsk, the villages of Velikoretskoye in Yuryansky district, Ryabovo in Zuyevo district and Lalsk in Luzsky district.

The region has more than 200 protected areas, the state nature reserve “Nurgush”, wildlife sanctuaries “Pizhemsky”, “Bylina”, “Bushkovsky forest”, 9 game reserves, 4 resort zones (Nizhne-Ivkino Vyatskie ridges, Mitino, Avitek), the world’s largest Kotelnich location of fossil vertebrates that lived 250 million years ago - pareiasaurs.

On the territory of Kirov Oblast there are about 3,500 monuments of archeology, history, urban planning, and architecture. There are more than 50 museums. Memorial museum are of greatest interest - the house-museums of V.M. Vasnetsov and A.M. Vasnetsov in the village of Ryabovo in Zuyevo district, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin in Kirov, I.S. Konev in the village of Lodeynoe in Podosinovsky district, John Rainis in Slobodskoy, A.S. Grin in Kirov, G.S. Shpagin in Vyatskiye Polyany.

Interesting exhibitions are presented in the Kirov Art Museum, Kotelnich Paleontological Museum, Slobodskoy Regional Museum, Museum of K.E. Tsiolkovsky in Kirov. In recent years, a large number of private museums appeared in the Kirov region: Museum of the history of Khlynov in Kirov, “The House of Hats” in Vyatskiye Polyany.

Kirov Oblast is also known for its traditional arts and crafts: Dymkovo painted clay toys, things made of straw, pine tree roots, wood, Kukarsky laces, items made of flax with traditional embroidery, ceramics.

This region is known to hunters all over the world. It produces about 30 types of game animals, including elk, wild boar, bear, wolf, hare, fox, beaver, marten, muskrat, otter, raccoon and badger, stoat. The hunting grounds area is about 11 million hectares.

Every year, Kirov Oblast is visited by about 20 thousand foreigners and more than 260 thousand tourists from other regions of Russia.

Interesting objects of cultural heritage outside the city of Kirov

• Architectural ensemble of the central square of the town of Slobodskoy with a magnificent bell tower built in honor of the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812,
• Michael the Archangel Gate Chapel of the Annunciation Monastery (Revolution Square in Slobodskoy),
• Architectural ensemble of Velikoretskoye, an ancient Vyatka village located on the picturesque banks of the Velikaya River,
• The house where Sergei Kirov was born in 1886 and lived until 1895 (Urzhum, Kirova Street, 72),
• Church of St. Nicholas of Myra (Nizhny village in Oparinsky district),
• Cathedral ensemble in the village of Lalsk in Luzsky district.

Kirov oblast of Russia photos

Pictures of kirov oblast.

Road through the forest in the Kirov region

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Village life in Kirov Oblast

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Abandoned church in Kirov Oblast

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Churches of Kirov Oblast

Wooden church in Kirov Oblast

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Restoration of cultural heritage in the Kirov region

Magnificent cathedral in Kirov Oblast

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