Haico Endstra, the brother of real estate trader Wim Endstra (photo), who was shot dead in 2004, paid millions of euros last year to a creditor who was still claiming money from the Endstra heirs. According to a reliable source, this creditor still had a few million credits from Wim “Willem” Endstra and that was finally settled last year. The creditor in question has to Crimesite confirmed that payment has been made.
Door @Wim van de Pol
The creditor was Mike J., owner of a Spanish security company, and convicted of minor drug offenses in the past in the Netherlands. J. confirms in response to Crimesite the notice of payment and “that the matter has been resolved to our full satisfaction.” Furthermore, J. does not want to comment on the matter.
The amount paid is unknown.
Mink Cook
Mike J. is well acquainted with the Amsterdam criminal Mink Kok, who in turn was well acquainted with Wim Endstra. Kok says that in the weeks before he was shot dead in front of his office on Apollolaan in Amsterdam on May 17, 2004, Endstra was very concerned about his safety. Kok was imprisoned during that period. He later said that he had asked Mike J. to have Endstra’s security look at it, but that this initiative unfortunately came too late.
Creditors
Brother Haico Endstra said in a police interview that he met Mike J. in 2005 and called him ‘a very nice man.’ J. then spent some time worrying about the safety of Haico Endstra, who was besieged by creditors, including criminals, after the death of his brother.
3 million
Mike J. himself stated in a police interview in 2005 that Willem Endstra was in urgent need of cash at the end of 2003. J. would have provided Endstra with an amount of 3 million euros, which in turn would have been (partly) financed by Colombian contacts. An expensive Hague apartment would have been collateral. Nothing had been put on paper about this, but Endstra’s (deceased) advisor Bram Zeegers would have been present at the appointment when Endstra was handed over the money.
In 2005, the detectives asked Haico Endstra whether he or Mike J. would not get into trouble if the three million were not repaid. Haico then said, “No. They are people I know very well and they also know that he is gone and that there is nothing I can do.’
No threat
Mike J. stated to the police that there was no threat with regard to this loan in the period before Endstra’s death because, as far as he is aware, there was no repayment or payment obligation.
Incidentally, J. told earlier Crimesite that he and Mink Kok had given more amounts to Endstra, also smaller amounts. During the period when he chased away people who came to Haico’s door, he says he was on the payroll of an Endstra company.
Ronald van Essen
In addition to Mike J., there were other creditors of Endstra’s companies who say they have remained unpaid. A number of them conducted legal proceedings against the Endstra heirs. Former ecstasy dealer Ronald van Essen, who is severely disabled because he was shot in the head in 1999, lost all proceedings in court.
Harry Pen
The Hague real estate trader Harry Pen also says that he has money from Wim Endstra. Pen did real estate business with Wim Endstra, as the Tax and Customs Administration also established in an analysis for the Kolbak file, the extortion case in which Willem Holleeder was convicted (see image).
Sixth time
Last week, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal adjourned for the sixth time a final judgment in the proceedings in which Pen claims money from the liquidator of Endstra’s estate, the lawyer Toni van Hees van Stibbe. The case mainly focuses on a fax to Pen with a list of transactions, which Endstra allegedly signed. An expert has testified as a witness that the probability that that fax is genuine is highly probable. The court now anticipates that judgment at the end of April.
Van Hees was appointed in 2014 as liquidator of a sloppy 47 million euros that remained of the Endstra assets, after the State and the Tax and Customs Administration had reached an agreement with Haico Endstra and the family.
The Endstra companies have not been prosecuted for money laundering, neither has Haico Endstra.