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This paper provides a description of organized fraud in the Netherlands on the basis of emprircal research. Organized crime is analysed within the framework of the enterprise theory, which considers criminal as entrepreneurs trading in forbidden goods or services. Large scale organized fraud crime-enterprises operated among others on the meat market, electronic equipment industry, toxic waste industry and the stock market. In most schemes they exploited the price wedge between the costprice and the price due to taxes and government regulations offering goods and services to a gacefully receiving legitimate industry. In the organized toxic waste scams the authorities are suspected to be heavily involved. Money-laundering operations were conducted either by the crime-enterprises themselves or by specialized firms. The research showed that some “branches” of business crime-enterprises have links with traditional drug trafficking enterprises.
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Van Duyne, P.C. Organized crime and business crime-enterprises in the Netherlands. Crime Law Soc Change 19, 103–142 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01915552
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