articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . september 2012 chipshol industry area development founded 1986 headquarters schiphol rijk netherlands website www.chipshol.com chipshol is a dutch development company . the company was founded in 1986 by jan poot in the hague . 1 chipshol owns land around schiphol airport with both residential and commercial locations . in total chipshol controlled 1483 acres of land . the company is headquartered in a business park near the airport . the name chipshol is derived from the name of the airport schiphol and chip from the high tech industry which poot plans to bring to the region in a new airport city . chipshol affair edit the chipshol affair is a legal issue over land around schiphol . the matter revolves around the chipshol company the dutch central government the judiciary and schiphol airport . in the mid 1980s jan poot began to acquire farming land in the area of schiphol airport . chipshol the company which he subsequently formed to manage the assets and which is run by his son peter is the largest private owner of land in the area adjacent to the airport . imagining that cities would grow around airports as amsterdam itself had grown around its seaport poot sought to build an airport city . poot presented his plans to the management of schiphol airport but was turned away . schiphol chipshol then ran into development issues when the airport expressed concerns for aviation safety and other considerations that were not applied to other developers in the same vicinity . in the 1980s the company owned over 1200 acres and after the lawsuits and planning measures the poot s lost control of over 900 acres . 2 since then a sequence of events outlined in several lawsuits occurred that saw significant portions of the poot s land confiscated with the help of the judiciary and schiphol officials . jan poot 87 and his son ceo peter poot 57 started approximately one hundred lawsuits to recover the land . recently a dutch clerk revealed two vice presidents of the hague court had close ties to chipshol s opponents . it is alleged to be the reason chipshol lost the majority of its land . jan poot charged perjury in 2009 and only after public and media pressure did the public prosecutor decide to prosecute the judges being the first time in dutch legal history . 3 two judges of the hague court are now accused of corruption 4 and conspiracy to prevent chipshol from building its airport city . pieter kalbfleisch 5 a former chairman of the dutch competition authority nma is one of the judges named . the other judge hans westenberg and kalbfleisch are charged with perjury by the public prosecutor . 6 references edit jan en peter poot oprichter en president directeur van chipshol . retrieved 25 may 2012 . lvln handelde onrechtmatig tegenover chipshol . blik op nieuws . april 25 2012 . retrieved 25 may 2012 . leander mascini april 26 2012 . provincie wil grond chipshol laten onteigeningen . haarlemmermeer . retrieved 25 may 2012 . competition watchdog chief faces charges . radio netherlands . april 15 2011 . retrieved 25 may 2012 . redactie may 16 2012 . westenberg en kalbfleisch dupe van trial by media in zaak chipshol . trouw . retrieved 25 may 2012 . more dutch judges accused of perjury in chipshol case . prnewswire . retrieved 25 may 2012 . external links edit official website chipshol the chipshol affair chipshol what happened artikel rtv noord holland 2 november 2010 interview peter poot tros nieuwsshow 9 april 2011 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chipshol & oldid 648726463 categories economy of the netherlandsschipholhidden categories orphaned articles from september 2012all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages nederlands edit links this page was last modified on 25 february 2015 at 02 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view