Man shot dead in Amstelveen is known criminal Itzhak Meiri, was on the death list

The 56-year-old Almeerder who was shot dead in Amstelveen this morning is Itzhak Meiri, a well-known person in the Amsterdam criminal environment. In 2008 he was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for extorting Amsterdam businessmen and had been on a death list for years, Het Parool reports .

Itzhak Meiri (December 16, 1965), from Israel, has been "chief financial officer" of the Sea of ??Love Cosmetics firm since early 2014, in perfumes and make-up – mainly "dead sea products", as he put it himself. .

checkered fifties
Amsterdam businessmen and criminals knew the checkered fifties as a strong arm and blackmailer.

The detectives warned him several times in recent years that he was about to be liquidated. As far as we know, this happened last summer.

Two suspects who were accused by the judiciary of preparing the murder of the Turkish-Dutch drug trafficker Ahmet G., according to the judiciary, had also previously planned to kill Itzhak Meiri. (Ahmet G. had escaped death in 2019 when he and his 17-year-old daughter were shot at their then home in Amstelveen.) An SD card found with the duo contained images of Meiri's house in Almere. A beacon was mounted under his car with which they appeared to be following Meiri.

The charge that the two had targeted Meiri as "spotters" (observers) was ultimately insufficient evidence, so they were not prosecuted for those murder plans.

Beachwear in court
In 2006 Meiri, demonstrative in beachwear, ran away from the court in Dordrecht together with his lawyers at the time. He handled his multiple extortion case because the Amsterdam court was too busy. Meiri did not recognize the Dordrecht court, which led to the necessary consternation.

In his absence, the prosecutor at the time described him as "a professional" who "impressed himself on his victims for a long time and systematically, without compassion". It was about businessmen who seemed vulnerable. The prosecution then: "Meiri created, subtly or not, a particularly great fear and threat. He gorged himself and made use of the network and contacts of his victims. He was trying to make his way to the upper world.”