Financial crime scripting: Introducing a financial perspective to the Dutch cocaine trade

The Netherlands operates as a distribution hub for cocaine, due to its transit characteristics cocaine is imported from South America and distributed to the rest of Europe. To enhance the financial approach to organized crimes, this article proposes a new crime script: a financial crime script. With a special focus on the importing stage, 76 Dutch court rulings are analyzed to make a first financial crime script. This financial crime script provides new insight into the proceeds, costs, and means of payment of criminal organizations and therefore could aid law enforcement in calculating crimin... Mehr ...

Verfasser: van Santvoord, Victor D
van Ruitenburg, Teun
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Reihe/Periodikum: The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles ; volume 96, issue 3, page 374-389 ; ISSN 0032-258X 1740-5599
Verlag/Hrsg.: SAGE Publications
Schlagwörter: Law
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032258x221083449

The Netherlands operates as a distribution hub for cocaine, due to its transit characteristics cocaine is imported from South America and distributed to the rest of Europe. To enhance the financial approach to organized crimes, this article proposes a new crime script: a financial crime script. With a special focus on the importing stage, 76 Dutch court rulings are analyzed to make a first financial crime script. This financial crime script provides new insight into the proceeds, costs, and means of payment of criminal organizations and therefore could aid law enforcement in calculating criminal gains.