Two months ago, the police received information that a liquidation was being prepared in Soest. The murder could be prevented by taking quick action, police say. He arrested three men, including a 35-year-old resident of The Hague. He’s still stuck.
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Tuesday showed the program Investigation Requested images taken by surveillance cameras in early March. It showed ‘spotters’ (observers) who were probably ‘taking off’ the area for the murder plan.
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Their target turns out to be 52-year-old Chris Kraijpoel. He is best known as a buyer of the former sex club Yab Yum. His attempts to reopen the illustrious brothel failed because he was denied permits from the council due to his reputation as a shady businessman.
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Kraijpoel has been featured in investigations into organized crime for at least two decades, mainly in the margins. It is not known why people have now anticipated it on Kraijpoel. Lawyer Marnix van der Werf van Kraijpoel says she does not want to comment.
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Who is Chris Kraijpoel?
Kraijpoel (52) has been on the edge of the upper world and the (Amsterdam) underworld for decades. A good acquaintance was liquidated – of which Kraijpoel was just accused -, cases fell through because the government considers him rogue and at least two criminals with whom he maintains connections were the target of murder plans, just like he himself is now.
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In a recent criminal case against two men accused by the Public Prosecution of having prepared the liquidation of the well-known drug trafficker Ahmet G., he also appeared indirectly. On a memory card that was found with the suspects, a photo showed how Kraijpoel and G. had a meeting in Laren on January 24, 2019.
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In overheard conversations, the two later complained, according to the prosecution, that they could have taken their target there: ‘That was with Laren. (..) When he got away it was dark. That was easy. Papapapapa get out ‘.
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Money laundering
A year later, Kraijpoel was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder. He was released after three days. The related money laundering case, in which Kraijpoel was also a suspect, dragged on for considerably longer. The investigative services took a grand approach to this case. Kraijpoel was lifted from his bed on June 15, 2010, and two hundred detectives searched sixteen houses, three companies and two bank vaults in Amsterdam and the Gooi.
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Ultimately, the court imposed Kraijpoel in early 2016 for four years, mainly for money laundering and fraud. He appealed, but that appeal case is still dragging on after all these years. In 2019, he was jailed for eight months for forging bank notes. In that case too, he is still awaiting the hearing of his appeal.
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