John Mieremet

John Mieremet

Johannes (John/Johnny) Mieremet (May 10, 1960 – November 2, 2005) was a Dutch underworld figure associated with the Willem Endstra extortion and assassination. Mieremet's former lawyer Evert Hingst was gunned down on Monday October 31, 2005. His murder was one of several in a string of three related underworld liquidations during late October and early November 2005 and one in a longer series of liquidations that has started in 2000.

Born in Amsterdam, Mieremet was murdered while conducting business in Pattaya, Thailand at around 10:00 a.m. local time. He had survived several earlier assassination attempts; one in 2002, and another on February 26, 2005, when he was shot in the leg and stomach by two perpetrators on a motorcycle.