Our knowledge in the field of ‘Fraud and White Collar Crime’ encompasses financial, tax-related and economic criminal law.

Financial criminal law concerns the enforcement of the Financial Supervision Act (Wet op het financiële toezicht), incorporated in which are the old Securities Transactions Supervision Act (Wet Toezicht Effectenverkeer), the Supervision of Credit Institutions Act (Wet Toezicht Kredietwezen) and the Investment Institutions Supervision Act (Wet Toezicht Beleggingsinstellingen).

The tax-related criminal law concerns infringements of tax laws, such as the General Law on Taxation (Algemene Wet inzake de Rijksbelastingen), the Turnover Tax Law (de Wet op de Omzetbelasting) and the customs legislation.

The economic criminal law relates to all laws enforced through the Economic Offences Act (Wet op de Economische Delicten). The main category of the aforementioned is the environmental legislation.

If you have to deal with an accusation of trafficking with foreknowledge, with tax fraud or infringement of an environmental permit or regulations attached to a permit, at CMS Derks Star Busmann you have come to the right place.

In the field of Sanctions Law, our criminal lawyers work closely with, for example, specialists in the Financial Supervision Act, tax specialists and environmental specialists, in order to immediately be able to deploy the required expertise for every specific problem. Even if the problem does not lead to criminal proceedings, but “just” to an administrative fine.

The basic premise is to prevent you or your business becoming involved in criminal proceedings. But sometimes, criminal proceedings cannot be avoided. When that is the case, it is good to know that our lawyers have successfully acted for their clients in some of the most complex criminal cases that have taken place in the Netherlands.