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On April 1st 2021, the amended Dutch Betting and Gaming Act (Wet op de kansspelen) came into force giving providers of remote gaming services the opportunity to apply for a license at the Dutch Gam

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A man went to a civil-law notary to establish a private limited company. The man submitted the required documents to prove that he was independently authorized to handle the affairs of several private limited companies. A striking fact was that, without exception, the private limited companies were established over a hundred kilometres away from the notary’s business address. In addition, the man lived near the business addresses of the private limited companies. The objects clause of the new private limited company stated the trade in household goods.

In 2016, FIU-Netherlands analysts developed a method to detect money flows that can be linked to the smuggling of refugees from Syria and Iraq to northern and western Europe. With the aid of this method, the analysts traced a Syrian refugee who lives in the Netherlands. The process started with 32 transfers of small sums of money to the Middle East and to countries that dealt with the initial reception of refugees. But new transactions involving much more money were soon discovered. The Syrian made more than 100 cash transactions to a total sum of many millions of euros, while he was living on benefits.