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      • Willem Holleeder, a Dutch criminal notorious for the 1983 kidnapping of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken, has been released from jail. He was freed after serving two-thirds of a nine-year term for extorting money from two men who were later killed.
      www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16758550
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  2. Freddy Heineken, chairman of the board of directors and CEO of the brewing company Heineken International and one of the richest people in the Netherlands, and his driver Ab Doderer, were kidnapped on 9 November 1983 in Amsterdam.

  3. Jul 7, 2021 · The Heineken kidnapping. From the 1980s, Mr de Vries made a name for himself investigating those killings and other criminal cases of national interest. His reporting on the 1983 kidnapping of...

  4. Sep 28, 2019 · When gunmen seized Freddy Heineken and his chauffeur outside the brewery's Amsterdam headquarters it sparked a global manhunt for the missing billionaire, his kidnappers and the $11 million...

  5. Dec 20, 2023 · Brought to book some six weeks after freeing Freddy Heineken, three long years would pass before Holleeder and van Hout could be extradited to the Netherlands. To add insult to injury, the duo spent much of this time under house arrest at a top Parisian hotel.

  6. In the summer of 1983, an anonymous person who was NOT related to the blood brothers, called Heineken brewery with an ominous threat. The man threatened to poison random batches of beer in Amsterdam shops, unless Heineken paid the equivalent of 20 million Dollars.

  7. Jul 4, 2019 · In the Heineken kidnapping, Freddy Heineken was abducted and held in chains for three weeks until a ransom of 35 million guilders ($17 million) was paid, eight million of which was never recovered. Holleeder was caught in France and eventually convicted and imprisoned in the Netherlands until 1992.

  8. Jul 4, 2019 · In the Heineken kidnapping, Freddy Heineken was abducted and held in chains for three weeks until a ransom of 35 million guilders ($17 million) was paid, 8 million of which was never...

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