FIOD

The FIOD is an agency of the government of the Netherlands responsible for investigating financial crimes. It is part of the Tax and Customs Administration, which itself falls under the responsibility of the Finance |Dutch Ministry of Finance].

History

The FIOD-ECD was formed when the Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Service and the ECD were merged in 1999. In 2010, the name was changed to FIOD.

Role

The FIOD's main roles are in investigation and governance. Investigations are mainly carried out into economic, fiscal and financial fraud. Governance is carried out in economic and financial areas.
Any one of the five main Dutch ministries |Finance], Foreign Affairs can order the FIOD to act on [information">Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)">Foreign Affairs can order the FIOD to act on [information of suspected fraud. They are also the investigation unit for several financial watchdogs.

Piracy

One of the investigative teams is the Team Opsporing Piraterij which specifically investigates breaches of the Copyright Act of 1912.
It has cooperated with BREIN to investigate p2p sites hosted in the Netherlands.