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The Supreme Court of the Netherlands affirmed the life sentence that was imposed on Willem Holleeder when he was convicted and sentenced in a series of assassinations. The Court issued a ruling on Tuesday upholding the earlier verdict from the Amsterdam Court of Appeal.

Willem Holleeder loses Supreme Court appeal over gang killings

The conviction of Willem Holleeder for instigating five murders should be upheld, according to the Advocate General at the Supreme Court in its advisory opinion issued on Tuesday. The Amsterdam Court of Appeal last year sentenced Holleeder to life imprisonment for orchestrating a series of murder contracts in an appeal verdict.

The Mob boss Willem Holleeder dubbed 'The Nose' will now spend the rest of his life behind bars for ordering the murders of five people

Among those whose lives Willem Holleeder, 64, ordered snuffed out was an accomplice in a famed 1980s kidnapping of a Heineken beer tycoon.