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National Risk Assessment-NL

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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Non conviction based confiscation in the Netherlands and Europe

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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Vegetable seed sector document

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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Money laundering vulnerabilities at PSPs

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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Misuse of legal forms

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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FATF review of The Netherlands

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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European court of Justice ruling about the UBO register

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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The risks of money laundering in the US differ in each state

By Erik Reissenweber (AMLC) Journalistic sources, such as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), regularly publish disconcerting news about some states within the US that set a legal basis for offering secrecy to financial...

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FATF evaluation Netherlands

The Financial Action Task Force or FATF makes periodical evaluations of different countries. Such an evaluation starts on the basis of what is referred to as a Mutual Evaluation, in which a team of experts...

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Banks have a wealth of information

Gitty Kanters, FIOD Eindhoven IntroductionRecently the Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Service (Fiscale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst or FIOD) conducted a criminal investigation further to the ING Bank having reported an incident to the Police. This report...

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