Hans van de Ven

Hans van de Ven (Spook, Spook/Premature death, Dutch Deep State/Premature death?)
Born	1953 Netherlands
Died	Amstelveen, Netherlands
Residence	Amstelveen
Nationality	Dutch
Interests	• MiVD • SINGINT
Former SIGINT head of the Dutch MiVD intelligence agency in 1990s. Suspicious death ruled "natural death". House was burglarized shortly after, female found in house sought for fraud let loose. Police reopened case in 2022.

Hans van de Ven is a former Dutch spook working for the military intelligence service MiVD. Van de Ven was the Chief SIGINT of the MiVD in the 1990s. Van de Ven was found death in his home in 2021 in the presence of a known criminal, ruled a natural death. In 2022, the Dutch police reopened his case, suspecting foul play.

Maximator

In 2020 Van de Ven leaked the Maximator-Alliance, a secret alliance for cooperation in the fields of signals intelligence and crypto analysis, cracking telephones, intercepting communication and implementing spyware with multiple European countries & Israel. After leaking, it was reported by The Economist & The Register and the Dutch NPO.

Being named "the number one suspect of the MIVD regarding leaking classified files". Dutch newspaper AD mentioned that there were "sources confirming people were not happy with Van de Ven's leaks".

Death

Van de Ven was found death in his bathtub in 2021 in a suburb of Amsterdam. Although a women being sought for fraud was found in his house, it was named a "natural death". In 2022, the police opened a murder investigation into his death. The Dutch national police and the MIVD refused to answer questions why the original police investigation was called off and why there was no police report made up regarding a burglary into his home after his death.

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