FIOD-ECD

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Fiscal Information and Investigation Service/Economic Investigation Service
Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst en Economische controledienst

Common name

FIOD

Abbreviation

FIOD-ECD

Agency Overview

Formed

1999 ^[1]

Preceding agencies

FIOD (from 1945)
ECD

Employees

1250

Legal personality

Governmental agency

Jurisdictional Structure

Federal agency
(Operations jurisdiction)

Netherlands

Population

17 million

Legal jurisdiction

As per operations jurisdiction.

General nature

Local civilian agency
Federal law enforcement

Operational Structure

Overviewed by Ministry

Ministry of Justice (Netherlands)

Headquarters

Utrecht, Netherlands

Teams

6-9

Notables
Programme	Rekeningenproject ^[2]

The Fiscal Information and Investigation Service/Economic Investigation Service, in Dutch 'Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst en Economische controledienst' and abbreviated almost always as FIOD-ECD and usually still referred to as the FIOD, is the Dutch Anti-Fraud agency.

1 History
2 Role
3 Piracy
4 References

[edit] History

The FIOD-ECD was formed when the FIOD and the ECD were merged in 1999 ^[1].

[edit] Role

The FIOD main roles are in investigation and governance. Investigations are mainly carried out into economic, fiscal and financial fraud. Governance is carried out on economic and financial areas. ^[1]

Any one of the five main Dutch Ministries (Economics, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Health, Work and Sports) can order the FIOD to act on information of fraud committed. They are also the investigational units for several financial watchdogs.

[edit] 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. ^[3] ^[4]