News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -

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...

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...