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Henry Hans Holthuis served as a Dutch district attorney during the 1990s, holding a position of significant authority within the Netherlands' judicial system. |
Henry Hans Holthuis served as a Dutch district attorney during the 1990s, with responsibility for prosecuting criminal cases within the Netherlands' judicial system.1
Rolodex Affair and Bell Boys Investigation
Former detective Leendert de Koter testified on March 5, 2014 before an examining magistrate in Utrecht that the Rijksrecherche supplied the names of Joris Demmink and of three chief prosecutors, which he gave as Jan Wolter Wabeke, Henry Hans Holthuis and Wooldrik, and that the suspicion against the four was repeated sexual abuse of minors. He did not elaborate on the prosecutors.23 The Dutch government's summary of the Rolodex Investigation records that a witness named two chief prosecutors, not named in the summary, as having appeared on a rolodex of a brothel owner; that the rolodex was never found; and that the College of Procurators-General concluded in March and May 1999 that the two could not be regarded as suspects.4 The March 2014 ministerial letter gives August 1998 as the start of the Rolodex probe.5
S. Dovey wrote that a rolodex held the private numbers of three district attorneys including Holthuis, Henk Wooldrik and Wabeke, and that the rolodex belonged to a university professor who served as an intermediary for clients of Karel Maasdam's Bell Boys service, with Holthuis's number among those in it. Dovey also wrote that a man Dovey describes as Maasdam's bookkeeper told the Dutch current-affairs programme EenVandaag that Warwick Spinks frequently supplied boys to Demmink and Holthuis.6
Footnotes
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Dovey, S. (2023). Eye of the Chickenhawk. United States: Thehotstar. ↩︎
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NOS, "Politie onderzocht Demmink in '97," March 5, 2014. https://nos.nl/artikel/619220-politie-onderzocht-demmink-in-97 ↩︎
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"Oud-hoofdofficier justitie Jan Wolter Wabeke uit Best genoemd in zedenzaak Joris Demmink," Omroep Brabant, March 5, 2014. https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/1720283/oud-hoofdofficier-justitie-jan-wolter-wabeke-uit-best-genoemd-in-zedenzaak-joris-demmink ↩︎
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"Samenvatting van de aanleiding, het verloop, de resultaten en de besluitvorming in het Rolodex-onderzoek," December 23, 2013. https://eerstekamer.nl/9370000/1/j4nvgs5kjg27kof_j9vvkfvj6b325az/vjigib8p5szh ↩︎
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Tweede Kamer, Kamerstuk 33 750 VI, nr. 116, letter of March 27, 2014. https://www.eerstekamer.nl/behandeling/20140327/brief_regering/document3/f=/vjifeja4nlzk.pdf ↩︎
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Dovey, S. Eye of the Chickenhawk. Thehotstar, 2023. ↩︎