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Career

Demmink began in 1971 on the legal affairs staff of the Ministry of Defence and was head of its legislation and public law section from 1977 to 1982. He then moved to the Justice ministry, where he was deputy director and then director of the police directorate (1982 to 1988), head of the judicial organisation directorate (1988 to 1990), director-general of the administration of justice (1990 to 1993), and director-general for international affairs and aliens (1993 to 2002).¹

He chaired the K4 Committee, the EU body for justice and home affairs, during the Dutch presidency from January 1 to July 1, 1997.² The government's 2012 answers to parliamentary questions add that an EU delegation visited Istanbul and Ankara on March 9 and 10, 1998, and that Demmink was not a member of it.²

He was appointed secretary-general on November 1, 2002. Advocatie reported in January 2014 that he retired as of November 1, 2012. The Rechtbank Rotterdam recorded in 2014 that he was secretary-general from 2002 until his retirement on October 31, 2012.³ In 2012 his departure from the ministry coincided with the launch of a U.S. Helsinki Commission inquiry into his connection to child sex trafficking, and even after leaving office he continued to deny all allegations against him.⁴

Rolodex Investigation, 1997 to 1999

The Rolodex Investigation of 1997 and 1998 concerned the Bell Boys callboy service operated by Karel Maasdam.⁵ The Dutch government's summary of the Rolodex Investigation, dated December 23, 2013, and released under the Public Access to Government Information Act, describes a probe that began in February 1997 of an Amsterdam brothel for homosexual clients with an attached escort agency. The probe was halted for tactical reasons and reopened in May 1998, after a suspect in an unrelated sex case began describing the brothel in detail. On July 17, 1998, that witness named two chief prosecutors whose names he said he had seen on the brothel owner's rolodex. A multidisciplinary team was formed on August 25, 1998. The rolodex was never found in searches.⁵

The summary states that the former secretary-general did not appear in the Rolodex file in any way and that nothing in the file showed he had any involvement. The same position was given to the Tweede Kamer on June 15, 2007, and repeated in 2014.⁵⁶ In questions of January 30, 2015, MP Bontes asked whether the earlier answers that Demmink did not appear in the Rolodex file could be wrong in light of two statements under oath in the civil witness hearings. The minister had answered on January 21, 2015 that for the second statement, of April 15, 2014, he had asked the chairman of the College of Procurators-General for an assessment, who reported by official message of May 1, 2014 that no information had been found confirming it.⁷ The summary also records that two other officials with legal government functions came into view through witness statements, wiretaps and observations, and that on September 21, 1999 the College of Procurators-General found it had not been shown that they had committed offences.⁵

The Minister of Security and Justice, Ivo Opstelten, wrote on March 27, 2014 that the Rolodex probe began in August 1998 on the basis of a statement by a suspect in another sex case, that this statement did not concern the former secretary-general, and that his name did not appear in the start information.⁶ The 1997 start date given by former detective Leendert de Koter and the August 1998 date in the ministerial letter are both on the record.⁶⁸

On March 5, 2014, De Koter testified before an examining magistrate in Utrecht in preliminary witness hearings sought by the Stichting De Roestige Spijker. He said that the Rijksrecherche supplied Demmink's name together with those of three chief prosecutors, Jan Wolter Wabeke, Henry Hans Holthuis and Wooldrik, and that the suspicion against the four was repeated sexual abuse of minors. He said the four names were already in the Rijksrecherche's system, that searches at the home of a university professor who was the focus of the probe found the computer, video recorder and tapes gone (he said the professor had been warned in advance), and that Fred Teeven, who led the probe as chief prosecutor, knew the names. He said the probe produced no further indications against Demmink.⁸⁹

The accounts differ on who refused a request to place Demmink and the prosecutors under observation. NOS reported that the Openbaar Ministerie did not grant the request. Omroep Brabant reported that De Koter said the request was turned down by the head of the national police investigative information service, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg.⁸⁹ Jaap Hoek, a former head of the Amsterdam youth and vice police who was heard the same day, said he did not remember Demmink's name appearing in the investigation.⁹ Omroep Brabant wrote that the probe produced no tangible result as far as high-ranking figures were concerned.⁹

S. Dovey wrote that a man Dovey describes as Karel Maasdam's bookkeeper told the Dutch current-affairs programme EenVandaag that Warwick Spinks frequently supplied boys to Demmink and Henry Hans Holthuis.¹⁰

Witness account, October 2012

A witness identified in the record as "Mr. B" testified at the U.S. Helsinki Commission briefing on October 4, 2012. He said he ran away from home at 14, was taken to a bar and introduced to the operator of a brothel for boys, and worked as an escort from a bar called the Festival Bar. He said a university professor introduced him to Demmink and told him to go outside to meet Demmink in his car. He said Demmink wanted anal sex, which he refused, and that he performed oral sex. He said Demmink later asked him to go to his home in The Hague, which he declined because the pimp forbade leaving Amsterdam. He said the professor was a key suspect in the Rolodex probe and kept a rolodex of high-ranking clients, and that he was later asked to cooperate in a Dutch television news programme about Demmink that was never broadcast.⁴¹⁰ The witness's face was hidden at the hearing, and he is not named here.

Government vehicle complaints

Tjeerd Postma, who headed facilities management at the Ministry of Justice from 1990 to 1998 (the chauffeur pool was part of his responsibility), told the Algemeen Dagblad in March 2014 that a driver, Hans Bakker, had told him after a trip to Brussels in the 1990s that Demmink had picked up a young boy and had sex with him on the back seat of the official car while the driver watched in the rear-view mirror. Postma said Bakker filed no formal complaint, that other drivers complained of waiting through the night outside clubs in The Hague, and that he raised the matter with Demmink, who in Postma's account called it "allemaal gezeur" and played it down. Postma said that in 2001, when Demmink was being considered for secretary-general and the Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD, the predecessor of the AIVD) screened him, he told two BVD officers about the club visits and the Brussels trip and warned them explicitly that Demmink was open to blackmail. A consultant who trained the ministry's works council told the AD that he had told the BVD that Demmink "jongetjes in zijn dienstauto bestelde" (ordered young boys to his official car), which he said he had heard from the works council.¹¹

Bakker told the AD that Postma's account was "uit de lucht gegrepen" (plucked from the air) and that nothing improper had happened in the years he drove Demmink.¹¹¹² John Moeleker, a former change manager at the ministry, told the AD that in about 1999 Bakker, by then head of the chauffeur service, told the director of general affairs that a second driver had filed a complaint against Demmink, and that the director later told him the driver had died suddenly of a cardiac arrest, so the complaint had lapsed. Moeleker said the secretary-general of the time, Harry Borghouts, was to be informed; Borghouts told the AD the complaint never reached him. The driver died on January 25, 2000. His widow told the AD that he had died of a heart condition that ran in his family, called stories of mysterious circumstances nonsense, and said he had filed the complaint on behalf of another driver. The former Amsterdam chief public prosecutor Hans Vrakking told NRC Handelsblad that the driver himself had told the BVD he could no longer bear that Demmink sometimes had sex with boys in the official car.¹¹

Minister Opstelten answered that the AIVD had taken into account all information it held when assessing Demmink's security clearance, and had never found reason to refuse or reconsider the declaration of no objection for his post.⁶¹¹ Demmink has denied the allegations throughout.¹²

Gay Krant report and the 2003 denial

The magazine Gay Krant and the magazine Panorama reported suspicions about Demmink in 2003. The Gay Krant's editor-in-chief, Henk Krol, published the allegations in that year.¹³ Omroep Brabant wrote that Demmink, then secretary-general, said in 2003 that he was not the official concerned himself and could not imagine that another official had such contacts, though the matter would be discussed internally.¹³

Adèle van der Plas, the attorney for the Turkish complainants, told the Helsinki Commission that the Gay Krant was forced to withdraw its accusations under threat of bankruptcy from Demmink's lawyer, and that Demmink told Krol in a private meeting that he had had sex with young boys without asking their age. In her account Demmink added: "Remember well, Mr. Krol, that we are the ones who make the laws in this country."¹⁴ She also told the commission that major Dutch media had not written about the case for several years.¹⁴ These are her claims.

Turkish complaints and the Article 12 procedure

Van der Plas testified that she filed three criminal charges against Demmink in 2008 and 2010 on behalf of two Turkish clients, for rape and sexual abuse of minors under sixteen. She said the boys were 11 and 14 at the time, and that the offences took place in Turkey in the mid-1990s, including a 1995 party in Bodrum that she described.¹⁴ The Bakker Schut Foundation's release of January 4, 2013, issued in her name, gave the ages as twelve and fourteen and said Demmink assaulted boys "between the ages of twelve and sixteen" in Turkey.¹⁵ The January 2014 press reports said the claimed abuse took place in 1996.¹⁶ The Justice ministry gives different dates. Its answer to parliamentary questions states that the Openbaar Ministerie carried out orienting fact-finding inquiries after complaints in 2007 and 2011. The 2007 inquiry led to no reason to order a criminal investigation, as minister Hirsch Ballin reported on July 16, 2007. The 2011 inquiry found no confirmation that Demmink had been in Turkey in the relevant period, and the minister reported that conclusion on February 2, 2012.²

On January 20, 2014, the Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden issued a decision in an Article 12 Sv complaint procedure ordering that criminal prosecution of Demmink be instituted, to be carried out through a request for a judicial preliminary investigation (vordering tot gerechtelijk vooronderzoek).¹⁷ Press reports of January 21, 2014 gave the court as Arnhem.¹³¹⁸ A ministerial letter of July 1, 2015 gives the court as 's-Hertogenbosch and the date as January 21, 2014, and states that the court ordered prosecution and instructed the Openbaar Ministerie to conduct a preliminary investigation.¹⁹ The 2017 court release gives the date as January 20 and the court as Arnhem-Leeuwarden.¹⁷

In January 2014 DutchNews.nl reported, citing NRC, that the order required the Openbaar Ministerie to interview one witness in Turkey (a second witness had since died) and to study Demmink's movements in the year in question.¹⁶ Advocatie reported that the court found the earlier fact-finding had produced enough facts and circumstances to support a reasonable suspicion that Demmink had committed the other offences alleged by the complainant, and that those inquiries had not yet given the clarity needed, so a criminal investigation was warranted.¹⁸ Advocatie also reported that the Justice ministry had searched for a document showing Demmink was in Turkey in the relevant period and had found no evidence, including in entry and exit records. It suggested that 1990s records may be missing because Demmink held a diplomatic passport at the time.¹⁸ According to Advocatie, Demmink himself said he had last been in Turkey in 1986. Van der Plas gave the date as 1987, describing it as his "alibi".¹⁴¹⁸

Investigation, 2014 to 2017

The Openbaar Ministerie began a criminal investigation about a month after the order, carried out by the Rijksrecherche. At its request, the investigating magistrate (rechter-commissaris) of the Hague district court also opened an investigation in 2014. The magistrate heard witnesses, examined documents, searched premises, tapped Demmink's telephone briefly, and questioned Demmink.¹⁷²⁰ The magistrate and the prosecutor visited the prosecutors' offices in Istanbul and Ankara in 2014 and 2015 to press requests for legal assistance. Turkish authorities refused, and Turkey said that Turkish law stood in the way.²⁰²¹

In January 2014 Opstelten wrote to the Tweede Kamer that Demmink was now a suspect in a criminal investigation and that the ministry would stop paying the fees of Demmink's criminal lawyer, Mischa Wladimiroff, although it would continue to pay for a civil case against the AD newspaper.²² That civil case, a claim for 100,000 euros, is described in the same report. The minister's letter of March 27, 2014 also refers to a criminal investigation into an allegation of offences committed in Turkey, which was under way.⁶

The Openbaar Ministerie's statement of June 30, 2017 said that its investigation, conducted at the court's direction, did not give rise to a reasonable suspicion that Demmink committed the rapes of 1995 to 1997 reported by the two Turkish boys.²⁰ The same day the OM asked the court to approve dropping prosecution. The complainants' lawyer asked the court to order further investigation and to refuse the request. The court's decision of August 18, 2017 approved the OM's request.¹⁷²¹ The court built a day-by-day timeline of Demmink's whereabouts from documents from him and from third parties, checked against the underlying records. It found no basis for the claim that he was in Turkey in 1995, 1996 or 1997, and considered it highly unlikely that a later criminal court would reach a different conclusion on the evidence.¹⁷

Helsinki Commission briefing, October 4, 2012

The briefing was chaired by Representative Christopher Smith of New Jersey, with Representative Steve Cohen present. The witnesses were "Mr. B," Klaas Langendoen, a former chief of Dutch criminal intelligence who had run his own advisory firm since 1998, and van der Plas.⁴

Langendoen testified that his investigation, commissioned by van der Plas's law firm, examined alleged manipulation of wiretaps and possible blackmail by the Turkish government of members of the Dutch justice department in the case against Hüseyin Baybaşin. He said he concluded that the attorneys' theory was correct, and that a high-ranking Turkish intelligence officer had given him a copy of a Turkish report about a Dutch official who had boys brought to his hotel room. He said that after one of the Turkish complainants travelled to the Netherlands to give a statement, the head of the National Investigation Unit told him that "there will be no criminal investigation".²³

Smith said in his opening remarks that Demmink had a right to be presumed innocent, and that the allegations, "when taken in their full context, are credible and deserve to be properly investigated". He said Demmink maintained his innocence and appealed to him to request a public investigation.²⁴ A counsellor at the Netherlands Embassy said at the close of the hearing that the Netherlands takes child sex trafficking seriously and that the panel was one-sided, and that the Dutch government's position was set out in the minister's letter to parliament. Smith said he would convene a second hearing if the Dutch government wished.²⁴

Van der Plas's testimony added claims that a Turkish policeman who had been Demmink's security officer on visits to Turkey had admitted kidnapping boys for Demmink to abuse, that former Istanbul police chief Necdet Menzir was willing to testify that Demmink was in Turkey in the 1990s and that his officers had been ordered to protect him, and that prosecutors in Diyarbakır were investigating Demmink and two Turkish officials, including former interior minister Mehmet Agar and former police and intelligence chief Emin Arslan, for corruption and child abuse. She also described a report, which she called the EK report, written by the Turkish intelligence officer Hüseyin Celebi (dated 2006 in her testimony and to January 2007 in an appendix she cited). She said the report gives dates of Demmink's entries into Turkey and says he used aliases. She said Turkish authorities had leaked a travel list, and that the Dutch authorities who received a copy never checked it.¹⁴

Official position on the Turkish claims

The Dutch government's position has been stated consistently. In December 2012 the ministers confirmed that the Public Prosecution Service had concluded the accusations were unfounded and had established that Demmink was not in Turkey in the period in question.² In 2014 the minister described the Turkish complaint as the subject of a criminal investigation.⁶ In July 2015 the minister declined to give a view on a remark attributed to his predecessor that the matter was nothing and never would be, because a criminal investigation was under way.¹⁹

The Dutch embassy's letter of August 17, 2012 was addressed, according to the government's answers to parliamentary questions, to Representative Joseph Pitts.² A 2015 ministerial letter gives the recipient as a Representative named Wolf.¹⁹

Baybaşin case

Hüseyin Baybaşin, a Turkish-Kurdish man, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Gerechtshof 's-Hertogenbosch in 2002 for complicity in murder, attempted incitement to murder, hostage-taking, preparation of heroin imports and leading a criminal organisation.²⁵²⁶ His lawyers, including van der Plas, have argued that the wiretap evidence was manipulated and that Turkish and Dutch officials conspired against him. His lawyer applied for a revision of the case in April 2011. On April 17, 2018 the Hoge Raad refused the revision request (ECLI:NL:HR:2018:605). The Hoge Raad summarised the applicant's theory as a secret collusion between the Netherlands and Turkey to have him convicted of offences he had not committed so as to silence him, and found that no collusion between the authorities had been shown.²⁵²⁶

Van der Plas's account links Demmink to the case through a 1997 Justice ministry memorandum, which she said named him as the responsible official for using the Baybaşin case as leverage over Turkey.¹⁴

Els Borst

Els Borst was minister of Health, Welfare and Sport from August 22, 1994 to July 22, 2002, and deputy prime minister from 1998.²⁷ From 1994 to 2002 she headed the Health ministry while Demmink was a director-general in the Justice ministry. She was found dead by a friend in the garage of her home in Bilthoven on February 10, 2014, next to her car. On February 11, NOS reported that it was not established whether she had died a natural death, and that police were treating the case with care because a crime could not be excluded.²⁸ Her death was initially reported as a possible suicide.²⁹ It came about three weeks after the court's order in the Demmink case.

On April 13, 2016 the Rechtbank Rotterdam found proven that Bart van U. killed Borst in the period February 8 to 10, 2014, and his sister in January 2015. The indictment charged that he stabbed Borst 41 times, and the proven statement uses that figure ("eenenveertig maal, althans meermalen"). The court held that he acted in a sudden emotional outburst, so that both killings were manslaughter and not murder, and found him fully unaccountable, departing from the reports of the experts at the Pieter Baan Centre. It discharged him from prosecution and ordered TBS with compulsory detention.³⁰³¹ The court recorded that he said much later that he had a divine commission to kill the person responsible for the euthanasia legislation, and the court's release states that he said this about Borst.³⁰³¹ Dutch media reported the 41 stab wounds in September 2015 on the basis of statements by Van U.'s lawyer.²⁸

Dutch author Tomas Ross, whose 2014 novel De vrienden van Pinocchio concerns a network of Dutch officials who abuse boys and protect one another, and who knew Demmink personally, suggested that Borst was murdered over what she had learned at the Health ministry in the 1990s, particularly reports of child abuse by politicians and other prominent figures that had reached her office from social workers at state care facilities.³²³³

Later litigation

Demmink sued the Algemeen Dagblad, its editor-in-chief and a reporter in 2013 over articles of October 6 and 8, 2012. The first, headed "Justitiebaas had contact met pooier van jongetjes", reported that three eyewitnesses in The Hague's Schilderswijk described Demmink meeting a procurer of minor boys in the early 1980s; the second reviewed the earlier investigations and why they had come to nothing. Demmink demanded a rectification and 100,000 euros in damages, and the ministry paid his costs. His lawyer wrote to the AD before publication that Demmink had never met the procurer and had not been in Turkey since 1986, and that Demmink had received the Gay Krant and Panorama editors in 2003, which had led to a rectification. The Stichting De Roestige Spijker joined the case on the AD's side.³²²

On December 17, 2014 the Rechtbank Rotterdam rejected all claims (ECLI:NL:RBROT:2014:10259), holding that the AD and its journalist had researched carefully, that there were serious indications and sources to support the accusations, that Demmink had been given the chance to respond, and that the public interest in publication outweighed his interest in silence. The court stated that the civil case concerned only whether the articles were unlawful, not whether the events described took place.³³⁴ In questions of January 30, 2015, the MP Bontes asked whether the judgment meant the court had found the allegations about contacts with a procurer probably true, and whether Demmink would appeal at taxpayers' expense.⁷

On October 29, 2015 the Amsterdam court ordered Opstelten, Teeven and Demmink to testify under oath in a preliminary witness hearing sought by a former boy prostitute who says he had sex with Demmink in the 1990s, including in the back of his official car, according to the AD as reported by Advocatie. Demmink has denied this.³⁵ In September 2015 NRC reported that the Openbaar Ministerie in The Hague had abandoned efforts to trace witnesses in Turkey, which had cited legal considerations, and van der Plas said she suspected an agreement between Turkey and the Netherlands not to hand over files.³⁶

Congressional correspondence

On December 21, 2012 Representatives Ted Poe, Jim Costa and Chris Smith, writing as members of the Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus, wrote to the Turkish ambassador Namik Tan of "serious concerns regarding reports that two victims of child sex tourism in your country are being threatened and intimidated into dropping their allegations against Joris Demmink". The text is quoted in a release issued by the Bakker Schut Foundation on January 4, 2013, in which van der Plas said that former Turkish police chief Emin Arslan had offered her clients money to recant.³⁷ Smith's press statement for the October 4, 2012 briefing said that Dutch authorities had interviewed only one of three alleged victims, that a witness had accused Demmink of raping him in an Amsterdam brothel at 15, and that the investigation into those accusations "was suddenly and inexplicably halted" with the officers involved "allegedly sworn to secrecy".³⁸ Samantha Healy Vardaman of Shared Hope International also testified.³⁹

Footnotes

Parlement.com, "Mr. J. (Joris) Demmink," biographical entry (Laren, December 11, 1947; Ministry of Defence 1971 to 1982; Justice ministry posts 1982 to 2002; secretary-general from November 1, 2002 to November 1, 2012). https://parlement.com/biografie/mr-j-joris-demmink ↩︎
Tweede Kamer, Aanhangsel Handelingen 2012-2013, nr. 691, answers of December 4, 2012 by ministers Timmermans and Opstelten to questions by Omtzigt and Oskam on the August 17, 2012 letter (answers 1 to 13: the 2007 and 2011 orienting inquiries, the Hirsch Ballin letter of July 16, 2007, the February 2, 2012 letter, the K4 chairmanship, and the March 1998 EU visit). https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/ah-tk-20122013-691-n1.html ↩︎
Rechtbank Rotterdam, judgment of December 17, 2014, C/10/419404 / HA ZA 13-226, ECLI:NL:RBROT:2014:10259 (undisputed facts 2.1 to 2.6: retirement on October 31, 2012, the AD articles of October 6 and 8, 2012, the letter of Demmink's lawyer of October 3, 2012; decision). https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBROT:2014:10259 ↩︎
U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), "Listening to Victims of Child Sex Trafficking," hearing transcript, October 4, 2012 (opening remarks of Chairman Smith; testimony of Mr. B, Langendoen and van der Plas; Embassy statement). https://www.csce.gov/sites/evo-subsites/csce.house.gov/files/migrated/uploads/2016/02/Transcript-Listening-to-Victims-of-Child-Sex-Trafficking-2012-10-04.pdf ↩︎
Ministry of Security and Justice, "Samenvatting van de aanleiding, het verloop, de resultaten en de besluitvorming in het Rolodex-onderzoek," with the chronological inventory of the Rolodex file, December 23, 2013. https://eerstekamer.nl/9370000/1/j4nvgs5kjg27kof_j9vvkfvj6b325az/vjigib8p5szh ↩︎
Tweede Kamer, Kamerstuk 33 750 VI, nr. 116, letter from Minister Opstelten to the Speaker, March 27, 2014 (Rolodex start date, AIVD clearance, criminal investigation into an allegation of offences in Turkey). https://www.eerstekamer.nl/behandeling/20140327/brief_regering/document3/f=/vjifeja4nlzk.pdf ↩︎
Tweede Kamer, questions of MP Bontes (Groep Bontes/Van Klaveren) on the Demmink affair, 2015Z01581, January 30, 2015 (questions 1, 7, 10, 12; footnote 1 on the answers of January 21, 2015). https://berthub.eu/tkconv/getraw/2015D03269 ↩︎
NOS, "Politie onderzocht Demmink in '97," March 5, 2014 (De Koter testimony; Rijksrecherche names; observation request; search at the professor's home). https://nos.nl/artikel/619220-politie-onderzocht-demmink-in-97 ↩︎
"Oud-hoofdofficier justitie Jan Wolter Wabeke uit Best genoemd in zedenzaak Joris Demmink," Omroep Brabant, March 5, 2014 (De Koter on the observation request and Aalbersberg; Hoek; probe results). https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/1720283/oud-hoofdofficier-justitie-jan-wolter-wabeke-uit-best-genoemd-in-zedenzaak-joris-demmink ↩︎
Dovey, S., Eye of the Chickenhawk. The EenVandaag bookkeeper account is Dovey's. ↩︎
Tobias den Hartog and Koen Voskuil, "Escapades van Joris gaan een keer uitkomen," Algemeen Dagblad, March 29, 2014, p. 11 (statements of Postma, Moeleker, an external adviser to the works council, a driver's widow and Hans Vrakking; Bakker's denial). Summarized in Welingelichte Kringen, "Seks in dienstauto: BVD was gewaarschuwd over Joris Demmink," March 29, 2014. https://www.welingelichtekringen.nl/politiek/seks-in-dienstauto-bvd-was-gewaarschuwd-over-joris-demminkbvd-was-gewaarschuwd-over-joris-demmink ↩︎
Welingelichte Kringen, "Seks in dienstauto: BVD was gewaarschuwd over Joris Demmink," March 29, 2014 (Bakker: "Het is allemaal uit de lucht gegrepen"; Demmink continues to deny). https://www.welingelichtekringen.nl/politiek/seks-in-dienstauto-bvd-was-gewaarschuwd-over-joris-demminkbvd-was-gewaarschuwd-over-joris-demmink ↩︎
"Onthulling Gay Krant Best leidt jaren later tot vervolging van voormalig topambtenaar Demmink," Omroep Brabant, January 21, 2014 (Henk Krol as editor-in-chief of the Gay Krant; 2003 reports; Demmink's 2003 response; court decision reported as Arnhem). https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/1675299/onthulling-gay-krant-best-leidt-jaren-later-tot-vervolging-van-voormalig-topambtenaar-demmink ↩︎
Written testimony of Adèle van der Plas, Helsinki Commission briefing, October 4, 2012 (complaints in 2008 and 2010; Gay Krant account; media remarks; Turkish claims, EK report, Diyarbakır investigation, 1997 memorandum; attributed to van der Plas throughout). https://www.csce.gov/sites/evo-subsites/csce.house.gov/files/migrated/uploads/2016/02/van-der-Plas-Testimony.pdf ↩︎
Bakker Schut Foundation, release "Adele van der Plas Urges 113th Session of Congress to Further Investigate Concerns of Congressmen Ted Poe, Jim Costa, and Chris Smith," PR Newswire, January 4, 2013 (ages twelve and fourteen; twelve to sixteen). https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/attorney-for-turkish-victims-of-former-dutch-justice-ministry-secretary-general-joris-demminks-alleged-crimes-applauds-letter-from-congress-expressing-concern-to-turkish-ambassador-about-pedophilia-investigation-185655552.html ↩︎
DutchNews.nl, "Former justice top dog should face probe for child rape: court," January 21, 2014 (claims of abuse on business in Turkey in 1996; one witness to be interviewed in Turkey; second witness dead). https://www.dutchnews.nl/2014/01/former_justice_top_dog_should/ ↩︎
Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden, press release on the request to waive prosecution in the Article 12 proceedings against J. Demmink, August 18, 2017 (describes the beschikking of January 20, 2014, the investigation, the timeline and the court's conclusions). https://www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-en-contact/organisatie/gerechtshoven/gerechtshof-arnhem-leeuwarden/nieuws/2017/08/beslissing-gerechtshof-over-bewilligingsverzoek-in-de-beklagzaak-tegen-j-demmink ↩︎
Advocatie, "Hof: OM moet Demmink vervolgen om seksueel misbruik," January 21, 2014 (Arnhem-Leeuwarden order; retirement as of November 1, 2012; Justice ministry findings on Turkish travel; diplomatic passport suggestion; Demmink's 1986 statement). https://www.advocatie.nl/?p=37223 ↩︎
Tweede Kamer, Kamerstuk 31 015, nr. 115, letter from Minister Van der Steur, July 1, 2015 (answers 1, 2 and 5 on the Bekink letter, the January 2014 order and the criminal investigation). https://eerstekamer.nl/9370000/1/j4nvi0xeni9vr2l_j9vvkfvj6b325az/vme26leaeuex/f=/vjvdn6hc42z9.pdf ↩︎
Openbaar Ministerie, "OM vraagt bewilliging van verzoek af te zien van vervolging Demmink," June 30, 2017 (investigation summary, legal assistance requests to Turkey, Turkish refusal). https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuws/2017/06/30/om-vraagt-bewilliging-van-verzoek-af-te-zien-van-vervolging-demmink ↩︎
Openbaar Ministerie, "OM tevreden met beslissing hof om Demmink niet verder te vervolgen," August 18, 2017 (court's approval; one complainant heard in the Netherlands, the other never came to the Netherlands). https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuws/2017/08/18/om-tevreden-met-beslissing-hof-om-demmink-niet-verder-te-vervolgen ↩︎
Advocatie, "Opstelten betaalt strafrechtadvocaat Demmink niet meer," January 22, 2014 (letter to parliament on the fees of Wladimiroff; civil claim against the AD for 100,000 euros). https://advocatie.nl/nieuws/opstelten-betaalt-strafrechtadvocaat-demmink-niet-meer ↩︎
Written testimony of Klaas Langendoen, Helsinki Commission briefing, October 4, 2012 (commission from the law firm; wiretap and blackmail claims; account of the National Investigation Unit). https://www.csce.gov/sites/evo-subsites/csce.house.gov/files/migrated/uploads/2016/02/Langendoen-Testimony.pdf ↩︎
Helsinki Commission transcript, October 4, 2012 (Smith's opening and closing remarks; Embassy counsellor's statement; announcement of a second hearing). https://www.csce.gov/sites/evo-subsites/csce.house.gov/files/migrated/uploads/2016/02/Transcript-Listening-to-Victims-of-Child-Sex-Trafficking-2012-10-04.pdf ↩︎
Rechtspraak.nl, "Levenslang veroordeelde Hüseyin Baybaşin," case summary (revision request filed April 2011; refused by the Hoge Raad on April 17, 2018). https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Bekende-rechtszaken/Levenslang-veroordeelde-Huseyin-B/Paginas/default.aspx ↩︎
Hoge Raad, April 17, 2018, 11/02065, ECLI:NL:HR:2018:605 (revision of ECLI:NL:GHSHE:2002:AE5920). https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2018:605 ↩︎
Parlement.com, "Dr. E. (Els) Borst-Eilers," biographical entry (minister of Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, August 22, 1994 to July 22, 2002; place of death Bilthoven). https://parlement.com/biografie/dr-e-els-borst-eilers ↩︎
NOS, Gerard Driehuis, "Of ex-minister Els Borst een natuurlijke dood is gestorven staat nog altijd niet vast," February 11, 2014; DutchNews.nl, "Former health minister Els Borst was stabbed 41 times," September 2, 2015 (stab count from the suspect's lawyer, as reported by Dutch media). https://www.dutchnews.nl/2015/09/former-health-minister-els-borst-was-stabbed-41-times ↩︎
Reports of the Els Borst murder investigation and timing, and of the Dutch court ruling on the Demmink investigation, January 2014. ↩︎
Rechtbank Rotterdam, press release "Rechtbank Rotterdam veroordeelt Bart van U. tot tbs met dwangverpleging," April 13, 2016. https://www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-en-contact/organisatie/rechtbanken/rechtbank-rotterdam/nieuws/2016/04/rechtbank-rotterdam-veroordeelt-bart-van-u-tot-tbs-met-dwangverpleging ↩︎
Rechtbank Rotterdam, judgment of April 13, 2016, 10/660017-15 and 10/662040-15, ECLI:NL:RBROT:2016:2699 (indictment and proven statement of 41 stabs; manslaughter in a sudden emotional outburst; full unaccountability; TBS). https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBROT:2016:2699 ↩︎
Statements attributed to Tomas Ross. ↩︎
Thrillerweb, review of Tomas Ross, De vrienden van Pinocchio (2014) (plot of the novel). https://thrillerweb.nl/tomas-ross-de-vrienden-van-pinocchio/ ↩︎
Advocatie, "Joris Demmink verliest rechtszaak tegen AD op alle fronten," December 17, 2014. https://advocatie.nl/?p=39325 ↩︎
Advocatie, "Rechtbank: Demmink, Opstelten en Teeven moeten getuigen over kindermisbruik," October 29, 2015. https://advocatie.nl/?p=40915 ↩︎
DutchNews.nl, "Turkey won't cooperate with Demmink abuse inquiry: NRC," September 14, 2015. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2015/09/turkey-wont-cooperate-with-demmink-abuse-inquiry-nrc/ ↩︎
Bakker Schut Foundation release, PR Newswire, January 4, 2013 (text of the December 21, 2012 letter of Poe, Costa and Smith to Ambassador Tan). https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/attorney-for-turkish-victims-of-former-dutch-justice-ministry-secretary-general-joris-demminks-alleged-crimes-applauds-letter-from-congress-expressing-concern-to-turkish-ambassador-about-pedophilia-investigation-185655552.html ↩︎
Rep. Chris Smith, "Child Sex Trafficking Topic of Congressional Briefing," press statement on the October 4, 2012 briefing. https://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=310525 ↩︎
Remarks by Samantha Healy Vardaman, Shared Hope International, Helsinki Commission briefing, October 4, 2012. https://www.csce.gov/sites/evo-subsites/csce.house.gov/files/migrated/uploads/2016/02/Vardaman-Testimony.pdf ↩︎

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