ABSTRACT
On April 18, 2011, the local newspaper of Amsterdam Het Parool reported that the city administration intend to revoke the licenses of entrepreneur Marcel Kaatee for the exploitation of his gambling houses in the inner city Red Light District. The city administration saw Kaatee as a front man of organized-crime-boss Willem Holleeder, and for that reason revoked the licenses using the BIBOB (Public Administration Probity Screening) Act. Holleeder was recently convicted for the extortion of real estate entrepreneurs and was suspected of several murders in the Amsterdam underworld. Although the criminal court acquitted Kaatee as an accomplice of Holleeder, the city administration was nevertheless convinced that a serious threat existed that Kaatee used the gambling houses for money-laundering purposes.
