The Fiscal Information and Investigation Service ( nl, Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst (FIOD)) is an agency of the

government of the Netherlands The politics of the Netherlands take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy, and a decentralised unitary state.''Civil service systems in Western Europe'' edited by A. J. G. M. Bekke, ...

responsible for investigating financial crimes. It is part of the

Tax and Customs Administration The Tax and Customs Administration ( nl, Belastingdienst, translation=Tax Service) is the tax collection and customs service of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is part of the Ministry of Finance and is responsible for levying and collecting tax ...

, which itself falls under the responsibility of the Dutch Ministry of Finance.

History

The FIOD-ECD was formed when the FIOD and the ECD ( nl, Economische Controledienst, links=no) were merged in 1999. In 2010, the name was changed to FIOD.

Role

The FIOD's main roles are in investigation and

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. Investigations are mainly carried out into economic,

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and financial fraud. Governance is carried out in economic and financial areas. Any one of the five main

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(

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, Finance, Foreign Affairs,

Justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

, and Health, Welfare and Sports) can order the FIOD to act on information of suspected fraud. They are also the investigational unit for several financial watchdogs.

Piracy

One of the investigative teams is the Team Opsporing Piraterij (Piracy Investigations Team) which specifically investigates breaches of the Copyright Act of 1912. It has cooperated with

BREIN The stichting BREIN (Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland) translates roughly as ''association for the Protection of the Rights of the Entertainment Industry of the Netherlands''. BREIN ( en, Brain or Brains) is an association in ...

to investigate p2p sites hosted in the Netherlands.

References

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