The public prosecution department is claiming €17.9m from convicted criminal Willem Holleeder which it claims he got from blackmailing several business men.

The case will be heard in April.
‘It is the highest claim made this year,’ the department’s Hessel Schuth told tv programme Nova on Thursday night. The aim of the claim is to prevent Holleeder enjoying the proceeds of his crimes when he is released from jail.
Holleeder is currently serving a nine-year jail sentence for blackmail, membership of a criminal organisation, and money laundering. He was first found guilty of blackmailing three property tycoons in 2007.
That trial was the result of a three-year investigation into Holleeder, who was jailed in the 1980s for kidnapping beer magnate Freddie Heineken.
If he refuses to pay the claim, he can be jailed for a further three years, the Telegraaf reports.