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Minister of Defence

Executive branch of government · National government

Minister of Defence is an entity described in industry reference data. It is not linked to any risk indications in our database, and it has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Position				[sources]
Name	Minister of Defence · Minister of Defense				[sources]
Country	Netherlands				[sources]
Inception date	1928-09-01				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20740176				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-26	Last processed	2026-03-20	First seen	2023-09-08

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Position holders
Holder	Start date	End date
Klaas Dijkhoff PEP	2017-10-04	2017-10-26

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Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,898

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,955

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,763

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions499,984

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-880bd6587b909178c383d5cc0cdb3a1f0d266c93 · us-cia-10a537003c905ec648ddf85df6dfb5b4afd93ce3

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