Overview
- Fiscal investigators searched two business sites, three homes and a storage unit in Westland, Zevenaar and Arnhem as part of a money‑laundering case.
- Officers seized cash, cryptocurrencies, bank accounts, records and data carriers during the raids, and no arrests were made.
- The suspects are a flower and plant wholesaler and two employees aged 58 and 25 from the Zevenaar and Arnhem area.
- The probe followed FIU alerts of unusual cash deposits totaling more than €28 million from 2021 to 2025, with about €300,000 in cash arriving each week in 2025.
- Investigators are tracing the origin of the funds and potential failures to report under the Wwft, which requires businesses to flag large or suspicious cash payments, after a prior find of about €200,000 at the Westland site last year.