Cash machines operated by independent companies rather than banks can be easily used to launder money and nothing is being done to stop the practice, television current affairs programme Zembla has found. The programme, which looked at non-bank affiliated ATMs in the Netherlands and abroad, said independent […]
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A gang who committed a series of violent armed robberies in the north-eastern corner of the Netherlands have been given jail sentences of up to 29 years. A 72-year-old man was shot dead in his home when the men broke in and demanded cash and […]
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Finance ministry research has found that youngsters and people with ethnic minority roots are more likely to experience discrimination at the hand of banks. In total, one in 10 people say they have experienced discrimination in their contact with financial institutions In particular, the “exaggerated” number […]
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The trade in illegal fireworks is increasingly resembling drug trafficking – deals are made through encrypted messaging services, runners are walking the streets not knowing whose fireworks they are delivering, and a number of players are responsible for importing tens of thousands of kilograms of […]
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In the first half of this year, customs officers confiscated more than twice as much cocaine as in the same period last year. So far this year, 77 shipments with a total of 25,599 kilograms of cocaine were intercepted and seized, compared to 60 shipments […]
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It was a difficult night for one drunk pedestrian, who police officers found sleeping on the shoulder at the junction of two major expressways in Amsterdam on Friday night. The man was on his way to Amsterdam-Zuidoost, but police said he was “so under the […]
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Police arrested a 31-year-old Rotterdam man who they suspect of co-perpetrating the assassination of criminal defense attorney Derk Wiersum last September. The man was arrested in Amsterdam on Monday, and remanded into custody by a magistrate on Thursday, police said. A tactical team was used to make […]
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The Domino’s Pizza on Biljmerplein in Amsterdam Zuidoost will equip its delivery workers with bodycams to protect them against robbery. “It is almost certain that this plan will continue”, spokesperson Marianne Kemps of Domino’s Pizza said to Het Parool. Domino’s already successfully experimented with bodycams, […]
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Even with nearly two months left to go in the year, authorities at the Port of Rotterdam this year have already surpassed the record amount of cocaine caught there in 2018, according to an investigation by De Telegraaf. Some 23 thousand kilograms of cocaine was […]
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Prosecutors on Tuesday alleged that a group of seven men were at least partly responsible for the importation of approximately 1,125 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of frozen fish. The cocaine entered the Netherlands at the Port of Rotterdam and was then tracked […]
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As Tomorrowland ends for another year, figures have emerged on the number of arrests made, drugs confiscated and crimes committed during the two weekends of the massive electronic festival in Flanders. The figures, published by Het Nieuwsblad, combine the latest info from the two weekends […]
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Customs officers in the Netherlands found 70 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside the hold of a ship in Amsterdam harbor. The street value of the seized cocaine is €1.7 million, according to financial crimes investigation service FIOD. So far, nobody was arrested in connection with […]
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“Results of the VAD school survey 2011-2012 show that the use of illicit psychoactive substances other than cannabis was rather limited in the population of school students (Melis, 2013). In the whole school population, only the older students mentioned ever use of these substances: 4.4% […]
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