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  1. Understanding the Risks of Plastic Waste Trade in Financial Crime

    20-05-2025 -

    J5 Sector Insight: UK-NL Trade in Plastic Waste Plastic waste is big business—and big risk. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are key players in the global trade of plastic scrap, a complex market shaped...

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  2. The need for cash in labour-intensive sectors: the Cash Compensation Model

    17-02-2025 -

    By: FIOD Intelligence Noordwest Various analyses of unusual transactions by FIU-the Netherlands in cooperation with banks show that businesses have compelling reasons for needing cash. Simple cash withdrawals may be undesirable if those reasons do...

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  3. Understanding Daigou: Risks and Challenges in Money Laundering

    13-01-2025 -

    Daigou, a term often linked to the purchase and resale of luxury goods, has evolved into a complex system with significant implications for financial crime. This practice, while appearing legitimate on the surface, can mask...

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  4. National Risk Assessment-NL

    25-09-2024 -

    The second Dutch National Risk Assessment, April 2024, carried out by the Dutch Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), commissioned by The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Security and Justice. Full text in Dutch...

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  5. Non conviction based confiscation in the Netherlands and Europe

    21-09-2023 -

    Dr. Marie-Lena Marstaller, LL.M., AMLC, 2022 Introduction As part of the fight against undermining and organised crime, many countries use non conviction based confiscation (NCBC) instruments to extracts assets with a criminal origin from circulation...

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  6. Vegetable seed sector document

    19-06-2023 -

    Sector knowledge is enormously important to make sense of information about possible money laundering schemes. The AMLC has been working with Customs since this year to gain sector knowledge.In Q1, they delved into the world...

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  7. Money laundering vulnerabilities at PSPs

    16-01-2023 -

    By Noortje Boere and Erik Reissenweber (AMLC specialists) Money laundering is the hiding and/or giving an apparent legal status to funds originating from a crime so that they can be spent and invested in the...

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  8. Misuse of legal forms

    02-01-2023 -

    By: Joost Marée (Strategic Advisor Fraud prevention at the Ministry of Finance) and Erik Reissenweber (AML specialist, AMLC) It is possible to misuse legal forms in the Netherlands for purposes of money laundering such as...

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  9. FATF review of The Netherlands

    04-12-2022 -

    De Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published an assessment report on 24 August 2022 about the Dutch policy regarding the tackling of money laundering, terrorism financing and the financing and spreading of weapons of mass...

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  10. European court of Justice ruling about the UBO register

    28-11-2022 -

    On November 22 the European Court of Justice (hereinafter the Court) issued a ruling on the UBO register. The Court concluded that the provision in the European Anti-Money Laundering Directive (hereafter Directive), which requires member...

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