Daughter of Dutch chemical weapons supplier to Iraq Kidnapped
CNN: Dutch millionaire's daughter kidnapped
Armed men broke into a house in an affluent neighborhood of Amsterdam and kidnapped the daughter of a multimillionaire who earned the family fortune selling chemicals, including some to Iraq, police said.
Police said the gunmen stormed into the home of Claudia Melchers, 37, late Monday and took her away. They said they were treating it as a kidnapping.
Melchers, who runs a catering company, is the daughter of Hans Melchers owner of Melchemie Holland BV, which had supplied chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s. It was unclear whether the possible kidnapping was related to the company's earlier dealings in the Middle East. Read more
Melchemie B.V. in 1984-1985 sold over 1,200 tons of dimethylamine and thiodiglycol and 20,000 kg of phosphorous trichloride (all mustard or nerve gas precursors) to Iraq, and was fined $50,000 in 1986 in Arnhem and threatened with a one-year shut-down if caught making such deals again. Poison gas was used in the war against Iran and against Iraqi Kurds in 1987 and 1988.
Armed men broke into a house in an affluent neighborhood of Amsterdam and kidnapped the daughter of a multimillionaire who earned the family fortune selling chemicals, including some to Iraq, police said.
Police said the gunmen stormed into the home of Claudia Melchers, 37, late Monday and took her away. They said they were treating it as a kidnapping.
Melchers, who runs a catering company, is the daughter of Hans Melchers owner of Melchemie Holland BV, which had supplied chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s. It was unclear whether the possible kidnapping was related to the company's earlier dealings in the Middle East. Read more
Melchemie B.V. in 1984-1985 sold over 1,200 tons of dimethylamine and thiodiglycol and 20,000 kg of phosphorous trichloride (all mustard or nerve gas precursors) to Iraq, and was fined $50,000 in 1986 in Arnhem and threatened with a one-year shut-down if caught making such deals again. Poison gas was used in the war against Iran and against Iraqi Kurds in 1987 and 1988.
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