January 11: The city of Groningen announces plans for a tramway system. The first line, between the train station and the university campus, is scheduled to run in 2014. By 2040 the tramway system is expected to be connected to surrounding municipalities, such as Assen, Hoogezand-Sappemeer, Veendam, Winsum, and Zuidhorn. January 12: Former House of Representatives member Patricia Remak (VVD) is sentenced to one year in prison for benefit fraud. She received severance pay after leaving parliament, but didn't file her new income as an employee for the Ministry of Finance and as an independent member of the parliament of South Holland. January 12: Chemical company Akzo Nobel announces it will transfer its corporate headquarters from Arnhem to Amsterdam in July 2007. In previous years companies like Ahold (originally from Zaandam) and Philips (originally from Eindhoven) have moved their offices to Amsterdam as well. January 12: Fortune magazine names Philips CEO Gerard Kleisterlee its European Businessman of the Year for restructuring the electronics conglomerate. January 12: A car chase in Wapenveld leads to the deaths of two brothers (aged 21 and 18), a 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old girl. The four were chasing two members of a rivalling group through Wapenveld when they veered off the road and crashed into a tree. January 17: Seven valuable bronze statues are stolen from the garden of the Singer Museum in Laren. Among the works is a bronze cast of The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. Two men from nearby Muiderberg are arrested on suspicion of the theft a day later. January 17: VVD fractievoorzitter in the Utrecht Provincial Council is arrested on suspicion of forgery and accepting bribes. January 18: European windstorm Kyrill hits the Netherlands. Two people are killed as a tree falls on their car on the road between Arnhem and Ede. A motorcyclist in Leersum dies after a collision with a tree, just like a moped rider in Sint Oedenrode. An 11-year boy in Riel, North Brabant is blown in front of a car and dies on the scene. A 59-year-old man in Staphorst dies after a fall from the roof of his barn. He had been on the roof to repair the damage caused by the storm. Six people are injured when a crane crashes through the roof of a Utrecht University building. Amsterdam Centraal railway station is evacuated as part of the glass roof collapses. January 19: The