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Victor Koppe (1964)
Studied international law, European law and international relations at the University of Utrecht School of Law, the University of Virginia School of Law in the United States and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael
Admitted to the Dutch Bar in 1989
Practised civil and (financial) criminal law at the corporate law firm Nauta Dutilh in Rotterdam from 1989 until 1995
Worked in the field of international human rights law in South Africa in 1995
Practised (financial) criminal law at the Amsterdam based criminal litigation firm De Roos & Pen from 1995 until 1998
Joined the law firm of Böhler as partner in 1998; specialised in terrorism cases, cases before international tribunals, political extradition cases, cases concerning the Dutch Intelligence Service (AIVD) and financial criminal cases
Admitted to practice before the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Published on extradition law and financial criminal law
SELECTION OF CASES
Before international (criminal) courts:
- at the ECCC: Nuon Chea, accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Cambodia; generally referred to as the Nr. 2 of the Khmer Rouge;
- at the SCSL: Moinina Fofana, accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sierra Leone; generally referred to as Director of War of the Civil Defence Forces;
- at the ICTY: Radovan Stankovic in the first Rule 11bis procedure;
- at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Al Aqsa Foundation in respect of their listing on the EU-list of terrorist organisations;
Before national criminal courts (in all instances) in The Netherlands:
- Yvonne Basebya, accused of genocide and war crimes in Rwanda;
- Nuriye Kesbir, accused of terrorist crimes in Turkey; generally referred to as leading member of the Kurdish PKK;
- R.S, J.M.J and others, accused of (financing) terrorist crimes in Sri Lanka; generally referred to as (leading) members of the Dutch branch of the LTTE;
- Samir A, accused of terrorist crimes in The Netherlands;
- Nouredine El. F, Ahmed H. and Zakaria T., accused of membership of a terrorist organisation called the Hofstad-group currently listed at the EU-list of terrorist organisations;
- Wesam al D, accused of terrorist crimes against US troops in Iraq, extradited and prosecuted for these crimes in the US;
- Mullah Krekar, accused of terrorist crimes in Iraq and Jordan; generally referred to as leading member of Ansar al Islam;
- Khalid B., accused of (financing) terrorist crimes in Morocco and Belgium;
- Ernesto M.Z, Alexander A.C and Juan Ramon R.F accused of terrorist crimes in Spain and involvement with the Basque ETA;
- Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd accused in Norway of sabotaging whaling ships;
- Joost de Haas, Bart Mos and Jolande van der Graaf, journalists for Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf accused by the Dutch Intelligence Service in two different criminal prosecutions of possession and leaking of Dutch state secrets relating to inter alia the war in Iraq;
- Paul Kuiken (former CEO of Landis) accused of insider trading and tax fraud;
- Leo van Doorne (former Chairman of Supervisory Board of Versatel) accused of insider trading, securities fraud and tax fraud;
- Dirk de Groot (former broker in Switzerland), Ad van der R. and Dick du C. (former brokers at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange) accused of money laundering, insider trading and tax fraud (generally referred to in Dutch media as the Clickfonds case);
- Peter S., accused of fraud (generally referred to in Dutch media as the ABN Amro Sarphatistraat case)