Organised crime infiltration in the Netherlands: Transportation companies hiding transit crimes

Because of its historical development and geographical location, the Netherlands is especially attractive for the through-flow of crime and vulnerable to transit crime. Here we understand transit crime in a very broad sense as the throughflow of criminal assets from an origin country where the crime has been committed to a destination country with the use of an in-between ‘transit’ country (Unger et al., 2006). In order to determine the role of transportation companies in drug trafficking and other forms of transit crime in the Netherlands, we shall first explore what makes the Netherlands so... Mehr ...