Herewith I, [de zakenpartner1] confirm to [belanghebbende] the following;
Since the year 1988 [belanghebbende] and I, [de zakenpartner1] , are businesspartners. Since 1988 we took together and each for himself part in several business constructions and were both stockholders of several companies in the Czech Republic.
During the years after 1988 that we were active in several kinds of trade and investments, we acted as individuals and as investmentpartners; besides businesspartners we became good friends. It was common for us to support eachother, also if necessary in the financial way.
The first investments were done by [belanghebbende] , he provided the fînances to let our mutual companies grow, between us as businesspartners we mostly , but not exclusive and always , made loan agreements to be financial clear, also to the Czech Tax Department.
** For reason that [belanghebbende] took bigger financial parts in the companies , I [de zakenpartner1] , was mostly in debt to [belanghebbende] , those debts existed since the beginning of our partnership(s). At a certain moment around the year 1995, I took over the stocks from [belanghebbende] of [naam19] ; those stocks were never paid to him, I stayed in debt for that. I do not remember the price to be paid.
** In the year 2004 my company [naam15] was able to acquire a port-folio with appartments from a former State Company and the Company [naam20] . I was not capable to provide the money needed to buy the port-folio with appr. 400 appartments. For that reason [belanghebbende] provided me a loan of euro 200.000,- ; as I remember probably also another loan of euro 100.000,-
** The debts towards [belanghebbende] also came out of trading between my Czech Company [naam19] and the Dutch Company from [belanghebbende] ; like " [naam21] " / [naam22] for delivered goods which were planned to be paid at a later moment. Those deliveries were for example frozen broccoli and fish, I remember the total debt in broccoli and fish was around euro 60.000,-
Around the year 2006/2007 one of my Czech companies, [naam15] , owned a hotel in the City of [plaats1] , this hotel was heavily damaged during a freezing winter and because of ruination by some local youth (they were all captured by the police and convicted); For the reason that [belanghebbende] was/ is familiar with hotels and construction, I asked him to keep the hotel under his accountability, make the necessary repairs and afterwards sell the hotel.
** [belanghebbende] provided a housekeeper in the hotel, the needed maintenance and repairs were made under his supervision and on his costs and we tried to sell the hotel , in the year 2007 [belanghebbende] found a buyer, the buyer signed the sales-contract, but unfortunately the buyer refused to pay and take over the hotel. A courtcase in the Netherlands was presented, but Dutch Court decided in favour of the buyer. So the hotel was not sold and [belanghebbende] was never paid for his work and for his invoices to a total of appr. Euro 84.000,-
My company [naam15] received the insurance payment for the damages of the hotel , but I did not pay my debt to [belanghebbende] for my financial situation was bad.
** Since the year 2004/2005 , [belanghebbende] and [de zakenpartner1] , were stockholders of the company " [naam4] ". Due to problems in that company and the low sales price of the stocks when we sold the stocks, I was not able to pay back my loans to [belanghebbende]
For that reason [belanghebbende] had to take all loses and the value of his stocks in [naam4] went to zero (no value at all). Because of several medical problems and operations since the year 2004 it was unlikely that I would fully recover and retain my health; since that time my situation got worse and since the year 2010 I am 100% handicapped.
** I was not able to pay back the loans + interest and the debts which I have had to [belanghebbende] , fort hat reason it was agreed between me and [belanghebbende] that [belanghebbende] would buy a part of my stocks which I had in [naam6] fort he amount of the debts plus Kc 50.000,- agfainst final clearance between me and him. So all debts between me and [belanghebbende] were cleared because of the low addition of Kc. 50.000,- for the stocks.
It was difficult to calculate the precise amount of debts which I had towards [belanghebbende] because a former director of [naam4] / [naam6] "disappeared" with appr. EURO 400.000,- from the bankaccount of [naam4] plus most of the bookkeeping and accountants administration. (The man was captured after several years by the Czech Police and brought to Court, the money was gone)
So again to be clear, by calculating and discussing with [belanghebbende] , we agreed that I compensated my debts to him and the loses which were eventually made because of my acting in the companies by selling him the stocks in [naam6] for the "symbolic" price of Kc 50.000,- ; in such a way [belanghebbende] was able to compensate my debts at the moment of a future sales of the stocks of [naam6]
All the above was discussed with me in the presence of my son [naam23] to avoid misunderstandings because of my limited ability to conversate oral.”