Holleeder is criminal to the core, no doubt, but it annoys me how the sisters are portrayed in the media as some sort of saints who endured all that abuse from him and never got anything out of it. While the truth isn't that black and white at all..

They also profited from all the money coming in all those years. Astrid was a bit of a consigliere to Holleeder and Sonja was married to Van Hout. What a lot of people also seem to forget is the reason why they flipped. It is very obvious that they finally cooperated with the government because the government was starting to go after the sisters themselves. They wanted to indict them on tax charges and money laundering and that was their incentive to cooperate.

Once again, Holleeder is, without a doubt, a huge scumbag but the trial by media Astid has started and the portrayal of herself as such a victim is annoying and simply incorrect imo..

Last edited by BillyBrizzi; 02/09/18 03:42 PM.

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