The Fiscal Information and Investigation Service, in Dutch

Dutch language

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 "Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst" is the Dutch Anti-Fraud agency.

History

The FIOD-ECD was formed when the FIOD and the ECD were merged in 1999.
In 2010 the name changed into FIOD.

Role

The FIOD main roles are in investigation and governance

Governance

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. Investigations are mainly carried out into economic, fiscal

Fiscal policy

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 and financial fraud. Governance is carried out in economic and financial areas.

Any one of the five main Dutch Ministries (Economics

Economics

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, Finance

Finance

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, Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

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, Justice

Justice

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, and Health, Work and Sports) can order the FIOD to act on information of fraud committed.

They are also the investigational unit for several financial watchdogs.

Piracy

One of the investigative teams is the Team Opsporing Piraterij (Team Investigations Piracy) which specifically investigates breaches of the Copyright-act of 1912.

It has cooperated with BREIN to investigate p2p sites hosted in the Netherlands.