Guus kouwenhoven biography definition

Guus Kouwenhoven (born 1942), Dutch national who stood trial for arms smuggling and war crimes in Liberia.

Kouwenhoven was head of the Oriental Timber Corporation (OTC) during the regime of dictator Charles Taylor, who waged a brutal war against the.

Guus Kouwenhoven, a Dutch national, carried out business operations in Liberia since the 1980s.

Guus Kouwenhoven, a Dutch national, was taken into custody on 18 March 2005.

Augustinus Petrus Kouwenhoven, 75, is wanted in the Netherlands, where he faces a 19-year jail sentence for crimes against humanity and for selling firearms to.

Guus Kouwenhoven, a Dutch national, carried out business operations in Liberia since the 1980s.!

Guus Kouwenhoven

Dutch arms dealer convicted for arms trafficking in Liberia

Augustinus Petrus Kouwenhoven
Born	(1942-02-15) 15 February 1942 (age 82) Netherlands
Occupation	Arms dealer

Guus Kouwenhoven,^[1] often misspelled as Gus Kouwenhoven or Guus van Kouwenhoven^[2] (born 15 February 1942, 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch arms dealer convicted for arms trafficking in Liberia during the presidency of Charles Taylor.

Deported from the US

In the 1970s, Kouwenhoven was sentenced to two years in prison in the United States after being caught in a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation along with his then business partner Peter Rombouts while attempting to sell 6 stolen artworks, including a Rembrandt.

In this case he was sentenced to two years incarceration but served only 17 days before being deported from the US.^[3]

Involvement in Liberia

Kouwenhoven started his career in Liberia in the 1980s as the manag