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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...
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...
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...
12-05-2022 -
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...
08-03-2022 -
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...
08-03-2022 -
Leaks, bad press and transaction monitoring By: Joris Rozemeijer (AMLC) and Sonja Corstanje Maaskant (FIU-Nederland), December 2021 In this article, under the scope of transaction monitoring in reference to publications in the press and together...
01-03-2022 -
Virtual currency is regularly linked to money laundering. Gatekeepers need to remain alert of the risks. But which amount offers an indication of money laundering with virtual currency? The Europol Financial Intelligence Public Private Partnership...
10-11-2021 -
Money laundering involves objects originating from crime. The offence an object originates from is not always clear. Money laundering cases in the Netherlands have shown that it is not necessary for a predicate offence to...
10-11-2021 -
The AMLC and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC)[1] have jointly developed a new anti-money laundering game: the AML pressure cooker. The game was developed to make private parties that may unwittingly get involved in money laundering...