National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie

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Criminal modus operandi
5.1 Introduction
This chapter discusses various criminal modus operandi used by criminal
organisations to carry out criminal activities. The contents of all sections of this
chapter are based on the report from the subproject Actualisering dreigingen
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The following criminal modus operandi will be discussed in this order:
• corruption;
• use of violence by criminal organisations;
• misuse of ICT for piracy;
• misuse of ICT for phishing purposes;
• misuse of businesses;
• counterstrategies;
• false and falsified identity documents.
5.2 Corruption
5.2.1 Introduction
Various forms of corruption were qualified as a threat in NTA 2004. Although
the general impression was that the scale of the phenomenon was limited,
the conclusion was still drawn that a limited number of cases can also result in
serious damage. Now, in 2008, corruption was once again analysed to see to
what extent the qualifications made at the time still apply. In this section two
categories of corruption are analysed in more detail: corruption of public
servants and corruption in the business community. A third category, i.e.
corruption among independent professionals, is not discussed here, because
it has already been discussed to a large extent when focussing on the role
of financial service providers in money laundering (section 3.6).
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Dienst IPOL, 2008. Actualisering van dreigingen uit 2004. Verslag van een onderzoek voor het
Nationaal dreigingsbeeld 2008. Korps landelijke politiediensten (Netherlands Police Agency),
Dienst IPOL, Zoetermeer. The authors of this report are R. Neve, R. van de Berg, D. Roest, M.
Soudijn and S. van der Zee.
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