The mission of the Financial Intelligence Unit - the Netherlands is to safeguard the integrity of the financial system.
Together with public and private partners, nationally and internationally...
we try to combat and prevent money laundering, predicate offences, and terrorist financing.
What is our approach?
The Dutch anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing legislation...
appoints different groups of obliged entities as gatekeepers of the financial system.
These gatekeepers such as real estate agents, virtual asset service providers, and banks perform customer due diligence...
and monitor their services to determine if there are transactions that could be linked to money laundering...
predicate offences, and terrorist financing.
This may also include transactions that have not yet taken place: intended transactions.
This monitoring is based on guidelines that prescribe when unusual transactions...
need to be reported to the FIU-the Netherlands.
For example a transaction above a certain threshold...
or a transaction where a gatekeeper has reason to assume that it could be linked to money laundering...
predicate offences or terrorist financing.
On the basis of the Dutch AML/CFT legislation...
FIU-the Netherlands is the designated reporting point where obliged entities have to report these unusual transactions.
FIU-the Netherlands analyses the reported transactions...
to determine whether there is sufficient ground to declare them suspicious.
Within this analysis we use different national and international data sources...
like police data, real estate registries, fiscal data, and our international network of partner FIU’s.
In addition, we use innovative technologies and the expertise of our analysts.
After a transaction is declared suspicious...
it is shared with law enforcement, security, and intelligence agencies.
Within the Netherlands, but also within our international network of FIU’s.
The suspicious transactions can lead to the start of an investigation...
or can contribute to existing investigations.
For example, our suspicious transactions can be the missing puzzle piece...
map a criminal network of human traffickers...
or help identify cyber criminals.
As a chain of collaborating public and private partners, safeguard the integrity of our financial system.
FIU-the Netherlands, the power of financial intelligence.