A dutch guy translated the article:

Smart businessman or unreliable geezer?



23-03-2016

The curriculum vitae of an Eindhoven businessman who claims the acquisition of the controversial biodigester in Nistelrode raises serious concerns, according to the Dutch Newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad.

Is Chris van Steenbergen (35) from Eindhoven, whose company BiQ Group NV is taking over the controversial biodigester in Nistelrode, a smart businessman or an unreliable geezer? That question is important now that it has become known that Chris van Steenbergen is going to exploit the controversial biofermenter in Nistelrode.  The regional government withdrew the environmental permit, which leads to legal sabre-rattling. Whatever the conclusion, very clear is that when Van Steenbergen gets involved, business often ends nowhere.

Two companies went bankrupt under the leadership of Van Steenbergen: iSense BV in 2012 and iSwitch Global Group BV in 2005. In the last case, curator Lawrence van Woensel of Bogaerts & Groenen Lawyers, found that Christiaan van Steenbergen acted unlawfully. He was accused of fraudulent conveyance. He would have acted in the sale of inventory of the bankrupt company to another company he owned. The deal was therefore reversed. In a reaction, Van Steenbergen says about the bankruptcy of ten years ago: "I was not sued for the suspicious that I would have committed a fraudulent transfer or for the fact that I acted unlawfully."

Whatever the case, in recent years BiQ created a real Christmas tree with, for example, investment funds - each accommodated in its own private company (Ltd). At least nine Ltd’s, such as BiQ Services BV, BiQ Real Estate Fund BV and WiComm BV, were terminated within one year. The plan for a business bank, the BiQ Bank, also met with an untimely end. And a planned investment in a first part of the manure processor in Sterksel, a deal BiQ toots their own horn for, does not seem to continue, reports director Peter Schaminee. "The deadline has been running for months," he says. "But in spite of the agreement, no money has been transferred yet." Van Steenbergen describes this as 'nonsense': "It was just an application and not a commitment to finalize financing of the entire project.  It is a complex financing request and it takes time for investors to assess this opportunity."

True or not, BiQ is expert in generating media attention. Barely a few months ago - december last year - the company was looking for publicity with their project the 'internet of things': connecting equipment via the internet. This seems also turned to be a balloon. "It was actually meant to get media attention. There is no concrete plan or so", says an intended business partner. Other information on the website - which goes black after questions from this newspaper - raises questions at least. For example, BiQ claims to have invested last year in Angellist Europe Ltd, Opentrader Ltd and Favoom Corp. Separate companies with their own legal structure. But these companies do not exist at all; these are the tradenames of BiQ Group NV. "It is indeed a typo," says the entrepreneur when asked for an explanation.
 
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Building a good image is important, and Van Steenbergen knows that all too well. Officially, the BiQ Group NV has their office in the prestigious Evoluon building in Eindhoven. But this turns out to be a flexible workplace and not an office at all. Van Steenbergen just operates from a terraced house in Eindhoven-Noord.
In the mean time Van Steenbergen conducts business on the cutting edge. When he smells money he does not hesitate to start into a whole new branch, such as the agricultural sector. Like now with Nistelrode and the manure processor in Sterksel. A little more than a year ago, Van Steenbergen - who made a name for himself with 'piepers' last decade – got attention in the national media with a lawsuit against KPN. This Telecom giant would have unlawfully gotten the paging customers of Euromessage, a company the entrepreneur had sold. During interim proceedings the judge ruled different and for the time being KPN was vindicated. Van Steenbergen says that main proceedings will follow. A few months earlier Van Steenbergen had more success: the judge agreed with the bankruptcy he had applied for from the same company: Euromessage.

Van Steenbergen also has political ambitions, as it turns out. His first cautious steps in the political arena however seem to have come to nothing. The political movement Politiek Correct, established in 2012 with Van Steenbergen as sole board member never submitted an electoral list, according to the Electoral Council. 
To be continued – that is for sure.

Author: HUB DOHME
Date:  23 MAART 2016, 14:49


(in the meantime BiQ Group, named group but in fact a small company, went also bankrupt)

In the photograph shown in the article Christiaan van Steenbergen is on the leftside:




 

Since Laythian posted the link to an article about the CEO of Next.exchange, Chris/Christiaan van Steenbergen, and people started to talk about it, action must have been taken to get the article removed from the internet. So the link Laythian posted is not working properly. After a search I found the article archived on archive.is. Laythians warning seems in place. The article is in dutch, but google translate may help you out. Or maybe some dutch guy/girl can translate it.


http://archive.is/I7wBC


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