FIOD

(Clouds drift over a city. People walk through a shopping street. Voice-over: )
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VOICE-OVER: We live in a free, open and prosperous country.
With free trade, fast connections and sophisticated means of communication.
This provides plenty of opportunities, also for successful and fair entrepreneurship, amongst other things.
However, not everyone plays by the rules.
People and organisations committing fraud cause great losses to society.
This is why fighting fraud is of high public interest.
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(In a harbour, a crane stacks containers. Accelerated footage of people on a spiral staircase. A man walks through an office.)
This is our job.
We are the FIOD, the investigation service of the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration.
We deal with financial fraud, money laundering, cybercrime and corruption.
We do this in cooperation with several partners such as the National Prosecution Service, the police, several ministries. And of course, with our colleagues of the Tax and Customs Administration.
When considering whether to start a criminal investigation, we always choose the approach that has the highest financial and social effect. And which best compensates for the proceeds of crime.
We call this the effect and impact approach.
(Someone opens a laptop)
We have more and more digital and international work.
Progress has been rapid.
We therefore develop along with the changes around us.
Analysis of large amounts of data is becoming more and more important.
Up-to-date knowledge and the use of modern techniques and instruments are required.
(The following text appears on a computer: I hear the suspect making a phone call… A black van is driving through a street.)
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One of our priorities is to tackle money laundering schemes.
Money laundering undermines the economy and society.
Every year, billions of euros are laundered in the Netherlands.
Through drug trafficking, for example, or embezzlement or financial fraud. (A man closes doors. Someone points to a projection screen.)
A joint international approach is necessary.
International cooperation, and gaining and sharing knowledge are also vital in the fight against cybercrime and corruption.
We fight financial fraud and crime in various ways.
By using modern techniques and increasingly in an international framework.
(Image Text: FIOD.)
Because we have to make sure that crime does not pay.
(The screen briefly goes black. The Dutch coat of arms with next to it: FIOD. Tax and Customs Administration. The screen turns dark blue with white.)
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