Peter Gillis and his lawyer Erik Braun take into account the possibility that the sale of his holiday parks to businessman Taeke Dijkstra will not continue. That is why alternative buyers are currently approached. According to Braun, there are serious interested parties and there are now ‘Plan B and C’ on the table.
How many alternative buyers have reported and who they are remains unclear for the time being. Yet Gillis and his lawyer still hope that the sale to Dijkstra will continue. According to Braun, whether that succeeds depends on the moment when Dijkstra gets his financing. “We are also in a wait -and -see role,” said the lawyer.
The negotiations have been running for weeks now. Earlier, Dijkstra wanted to abandon the sale due to Gillis’ problems with the tax authorities. Nevertheless, the judge decided on 1 May in summary proceedings that the transaction of 185 million euros should continue as usual. It was also determined that Dijkstra must indicate who his financiers are. If he does not do that, he risks a penalty of 100,000 euros a day.
The lawyer Van Dijkstra, Oscar van Oorschot, has not yet responded to the latest developments. A few months ago Van Oorschot brought the parties back to the table. He then said that the goal is to complete the sale.
Italian party
Jeroen Ferrara, Taeke Dijkstra’s adviser, recently told Omroep Brabant that there would now also be an Italian party interest. “A number of people from southern Italy are certainly interested,” Ferrara reported, but other possibilities were also viewed from that side. “We can also do it ourselves, then I will run the parks together with Mr Dijkstra. Or we will sell part of the parks,” said Ferrara in June.
There was rather a big fuss about Peter Gillis’s holiday parks. The entrepreneur would have committed fraud there and people would live there illegally. Gillis was sentenced by the court to a one -year in prison sentence, six months of which are conditional, for large -scale tax fraud. Gillis has appealed.
Eventually the parks had to close and there was no prospect of reopening.
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