Henrik van Braks

Henrik van Braks was a non-canonical character who was created for the film adaptation of The Adventure of 'The Western Star' in Season 2 of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot. van Braks was a powerful industrialist of the van Braks armaments family. He had a hobby of collecting diamonds for his private collection, but as Japp told Poirot, he was not too particular how the diamonds came to him. In a side plot of the episode, Japp was convinced that van Braks was up to something but repeatedly failed to catch him with incriminating evidence.

van Braks was played in the film by Struan Rodger. This character does not occur in the original story.