De Vlieger faces prosecution
Tuesday 23 January 2007
The Public Prosecution Department (OM) is to take legal action against former media and construction magnate Erik de Vlieger for blackmail and threatening behaviour, ANP reports. A café owner on Amsterdam's Leidseplein has accused De Vlieger and several others of forcing him to give up his business. .
De Vlieger was arrested in connection with the case, code-named 'Madras', in January 2005. He denies the charges.
Last year, a 40-year-old Israeli, Itzhak Meiri, was sentenced to eight years in jail for blackmailing De Vlieger. De Vlieger denied he was being blackmailed
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