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In 2001, 26-year-old trader Dennis P. was reported to have smuggled diamonds worth 20 million from Gassan Diamonds in Amsterdam. The robbery was described as one of the largest in Dutch history. The company initially hoped to keep it quiet, while journalists Gijs Termaat and Tjerk de Vries uncovered the case and reported on the subsequent manhunt for the suspect.
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Crime journalist John van den Heuvel reflected in the podcast The Story of Your Life on his meeting with criminal John Mieremet in 2002. Mieremet gave him information about the criminal underworld, an attack on himself and money laundering; one report said he was carrying a shotgun during the meeting. Van den Heuvel subsequently published several articles based on the meeting. The reports said those publications disrupted the criminal underworld and that threats to Van den Heuvel's home changed his life.