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Tackling money laundering continues to be a government spearhead in the fight against organised crime. Dutch policy to prevent and repress...

It is settled case law, including from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), that money allegedly earned from criminal offences,...

The Netherlands is not the best boy in the class when it comes to human rights compliance. In the recent past, the European Court of...

In many drug cases, defendants are accused of committing criminal acts of preparation or promotion. Acts of preparation or promotion are acts that in themselves do not...

Late last September, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in a case brought by a Turkish...

When the preliminary criminal investigation proceeds to the final investigation, the public prosecutor (OM) proceeds to draft the summons. In this summons, the...

To keep someone in pre-trial detention, there must be good reasons. These reasons can be assumed if there is a breakdown in the rule of law,...

In the Netherlands, we have four main penalties. They are: imprisonment, imprisonment, community service and a fine. Detention and imprisonment are both custodial sanctions, but detention lasts for a shorter...

On Friday 21 April, the Rotterdam District Court acquitted a former alderman from The Hague and several others, of corruption. It was for the first...

If a person has made money by engaging in illegal activities, there may be 'illegally obtained benefit'. The court may, on the claim of...

Under international conventions, defendants in criminal cases are entitled to have their cases adjudicated in two factual instances. In the Netherlands, those factual bodies are the...

Will there finally be some acceleration in the syrupy criminal justice process? Almost anyone who has been involved in a criminal trial will be able to...