The debt of 392,000 euros that Jan V. (67) has to the State must simply be paid. That was decided by a judge on Tuesday. Jan had asked to cancel his debt due to ‘financial hopelessness’.
According to the judge, there can be no question of remission as long as Jan is not open about his criminal activities from fifteen years ago.
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washing cocaine
On 3 July 2007, the police discovered an amphetamine factory and a cocaine laundry in the former restaurant De Vossenheuvel in Well. Colombians were mainly involved in the operation, but co-defendants pointed to Jan as a great man and for that reason also called him Napoleon. In 2009 he was sentenced by the Court in Den Bosch to six years in prison.
Criminal Money
Later, Jan was also ordered to pay about four tons, which he would have earned with his criminal activities. According to Jan, he simply cannot afford this. The debt has therefore been open for years. Now hostage threatens; if the sixty does not pay, he is locked up in prison for a period of 540 days. In that case, the debt simply remains.
Jan tried to prevent this by asking a judge to cancel his debt. According to lawyer Sjoerd van Berge Henegouwen, Jan is a bald chicken with an AOW of 850 euros per month. Van Berge Henegouwen called the situation ‘inhumane’.
Dozens of kilos
The judge sees it differently. “Sir has been convicted of involvement in the very large-scale production of amphetamine. He was also involved in recovering at least tens of kilos of cocaine. This has earned considerable sums of money.” The judge blames him for the fact that Jan never opened up about what happened with that money.
Opel Kadett
Jan did, however, say something about the criminal money flows from 2007. He states that he only pointed the Colombians to a place where they could produce drugs, but never received any money for it. “He has been open to the judge. The same Opel Kadett has literally been in the driveway since the 1990s, there is no money,” says lawyer Van Berge Henegouwen.
“You notice that someone is as poor as a church rat, but you remain in a vicious circle. Then you apparently just have to sit down. Nobody gains anything with a hostage situation. It costs the State a lot of money and the client cannot pay afterwards either. ”, says Van Berge Hainaut. “This apparent reality is not justice in my view.”