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indications that skimming will increase dramatically in the next four years.
The introduction of better protected cards and more modern payment
equipment will limit the scale of the phenomenon and the losses incurred.
4.7.7 Conclusion
Skimming is a relatively rare offence, and the overall damage it inflicts on
Dutch society is limited. The technological developments as regards card security
and reading equipment in particular will prevent skimming from growing into
a serious problem in the next four years.
This is why skimming is qualified as no specific threat for the next four years.
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4.8.1 Introduction and scope
The law distinguishes between three types of handling of stolen goods:
knowingly handling stolen goods (Section 417bis of the Penal Code),
deliberately handling stolen goods (Section 416 of the Penal Code) and
habitually handling stolen goods (Section 417 of the Penal Code).
Knowingly handling stolen goods means that someone buys something when
he could have suspected that it was stolen. This suspicion is usually fed by the
price, which is (far) below the market value. The maximum sentence for
knowingly handling stolen goods is one year. Deliberately handling stolen goods
is different from knowingly handling stolen goods in that the buyer ‘knew that
the good was obtained by means of an offence’. The maximum sentence is four
years. People ‘who deliberately handle stolen goods on a habitual basis’ are
guilty of an aggravating circumstance. The maximum sentence is 6 years.
The last two maximum sentences in particular show that the law considers
the handling of stolen goods to be a serious offence.
Handling of stolen goods is not limited to buying stolen goods. The ‘possession
or transfer’ of stolen goods and money obtained from a criminal offence also
fall under the provisions relating to the handling of stolen goods.
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The subject ‘handling of stolen goods’ was not studied separately in a subproject. It was
discussed (briefly) in the report on ‘supraregional property crime’, which was referred to as a
source document in the introduction to this chapter.
chapter 4 – Supraregional property crime
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