Annual report 2011 Federal judicial police - Economic and financial crime directorate

Annual report 2011 Federal judicial police Economic and financial crime directorate

CONTACT Economic and Financial Crime Directorate

Director Johan DENOLF Notelaarsstraat 211 B-1000 BRUSSELS BELGIUM â„Ą

+32 2 743 74 15 +32 2 743 74 16 djf.direction@skynet.be

Please note that within the scope of operational police cooperation, foreign police authorities are to use the prescribed channels (Europol, Interpol and liaison officers).

The Economic and Financial Crime Directorate shall be referred to as the DJF Directorate throughout the document. For ease of reading, the names of the units have been translated in English. However for reference purposes the French/Dutch abbreviations have been added. We have included at the end of the report a list with the official acronyms and abbreviations in French and Dutch with an English translation.

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PREFACE

To efficiently and effectively combat fraud in a world of increasing globalisation and change, authorities (domestic and foreign) need to align their policies and strengthen international (police) cooperation. The report on ‘Ten years (Belgian) police reorganisation’ nominated international police cooperation as a point of attention. For the past ten years the annual report of the Economic and Financial Crime Directorate (hereafter named DJF Directorate) has been an instrument of transparent accountability towards our police authorities. With this English report our aim is to present our Directorate to our cross-border partners, for getting to know one another is the cornerstone to better cooperation.

The purpose of this paper is not to give a mere translation of the extensive annual report of 2011, which would be labour-intensive and take up much needed capacity. We aim to provide our foreign partners with information enabling them to gain a better understanding of our activities and results. We have therefore opted to draw up a new document elaborating on some points while summarizing others, the objective being to outline the Belgian context to our foreign partners.

On 1 December 2011 the coalition agreement of the newly elected government was signed. This included a reform of the state and a financial reconstruction of the national debt, entailing government authorities to use their available resources with care and efficiency. In addition, the budgetary efforts had to be distributed justly, which is why the Belgian coalition agreement devotes a lot of attention to the fight against fraud.

With the arrival of the new federal government, the two supervisory ministers of the federal police were appointed: Mrs Milquet, Minister of the Interior (competent for a/o the organisation of the police) and Mrs Turtelboom, Minister of Justice (competent for a/o the law enforcement and judicial authorities). The National Security Plan 2012-2015 was submitted to both of them and was approved on 1 March 2012. This federal government shall have an important mark on the future police policy and as a four-year police policy cycle came to an end in 2011, we believed an evaluation in order.

The past year the Belgian police have faced a number of changes, including the temporary assignment of our Director General of the Federal judicial police, Paul VAN THIELEN, as Commissioner General. In 2012, the newly appointed Commissioner General Catherine DE BOLLE – the first woman to head the Belgian police – shall complete the changes.

It will come as no surprise that 2011 was a busy year; a year in which emotions ran high and changes were many. Most people do not like change because they fear to be changed. But as Sir Winston Churchill said: “There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.” We are convinced that our internal reorganisation is a step in the right direction to providing better and more specialized policing services, offering support and assistance not only to federal and local police, but also to our domestic and foreign partners.

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SIGNIFICANT RESULTS 2011

Parliamentary queries

VAT prejudice

Computer crime

47

27.9

1,000,000,000

In 2011, MP’s forwarded 47 questions to the Directorate, which amounts to 4 more compared to 2010. Seventy per cent of these questions related to the core business of the Federal Computer Crime Unit that provided 33 replies.

The VAT prejudice for 2011 is estimated at €27.9 million.

Based on several national and international studies, the prejudice suffered through computer crime in Belgium is believed to exceed €1 billion per year.

Bank warrants

Money laundering

Strategic analyses

1,648

120,000,000

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The Coordination of Investigations & Information Flow Management unit (C&D/C&L) handled and sent 1,648 bank warrants on behalf of the integrated police.

Hundred and sixty-two warrants related to temporary freezing or seizure of the amounts on the account, which is an increase in comparison to last year but a comparable figure to 2009.

The total amount regarding urgent reports (named REDSOP) reached approximately €120,000,000.

After dismissals and restitutions this amount was reduced to over €23,000,000 (still seized).

The new unit Policy & Strategy (P&S/B&S) carried out 8 strategic analyses.

eCops Internet desk

‘Google’ in police investigation

Charged

24,220

357

In 2011 the online desk registered 24,220 reports, which is more than ever before and is an increase of thirty two per cent compared to 2010.

The colloquium organised on 27 April 2011 was attended by 357 persons, including police officers, magistrates and others.

70 In the case codenamed ‘Régie des bâtiments’ (state controlled building authority) 70 persons were charged for a prejudice reaching as much as €4,000,000.

It is estimated that bribes reached at least €2,250,000.

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SIGNIFICANT RESULTS 2011

Serious and Organised Social Fraud

Hacking bank accounts

International police cooperation

1,850,671.64 43,292.43 Although only fairly recently created, the Serious and Organised Social Fraud unit has some interesting cases under investigation, one of which is on the verge of being closed having already led to a seizure of €43,292.43 and possibly to the confiscation of a vehicle worth €28,000, as well as some houses that could fetch about €700,000.

Training Regional Computer Crime Units 240 The members of the Regional Computer Crime Units receive 240 hours or 8 weeks of training given by the Federal CCU. In 2011 14 Dutchspeaking and 12 French-speaking CCU-members were trained.

Checkdoc 188,663 On the online interface ‘Checkdoc’ private partners can check whether a Belgian identity document is known to the authorities as reported stolen, lost, expired, invalid or never issued.

There were 188,663 consultations in 2011.

4,078

The total amount of fraudulent transactions that were carried out reaches 1,850,671.64 euros. It has to be noted that there is a significant dark number in this matter possibly for reasons of reputation damage.

The various DJF units handled 4,078 documents within the scope of international police cooperation.

Whereas in 2010 there was a drop by 19%, 2011 registered an increase of approximately 3.5%.

CIRCAMP

Virologic

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Within the scope of a large-scale international and Europolcoordinated operation against child pornography on the Internet 19 Belgian suspects were identified end 2011. A total of 269 suspects, spread over 22 countries, were identified. The operation was prepared and executed within the scope of the project CIRCAMP driven by Belgium (Human trafficking unit in cooperation with the FCCU) since 2010.

A total of 72 machines were analysed in 2011 using the ‘Virologic System’ that was developed by the FCCU.

Forgery and Counterfeit Unit Support

Ageing staff

196

Thirty six per cent of the staff members of the DJF Directorate is older than 50.

In 2011 the Forgery and Counterfeit unit provided a total of 196 hours of support in the field, often in phenomena such as human trafficking (economic exploitation), social fraud and itinerant offender groups.

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Part I Directorate DJF 1. The Directorate’s mission statement

The Belgian integrated police are comprised of the Federal police and 195 local police forces (in charge of community policing). The integrated police were established in 2001 and are structured on two levels, functioning in an integrated way. The Federal police employ approximately 12,700 members of staff, divided over the General commissariat, the General Directorate of Administrative police (including traffic police, air police, etc.), the General Directorate of Judicial police and the General Directorate of Support. The Economic and Financial Crime Directorate (DJF) is part of the Belgian Federal Judicial police that manages seven central Directorates and twenty-seven territorial Directorates (one per judicial district).

MISSION OF DJF The DJF Directorate is dedicated to preventing and fighting phenomena destabilising societies, in particular as regards economic, financial and fiscal organised crime, serious and organised fraud, bribery (both public and private), computer crime, forgery (false documents and counterfeiting), organised fraud (with or without Internet).

It does so by developing and offering: conceptual, operational and technical support; information, expertise and coordination; highly specialised investigative capacity.

The Federal and the local police both strive toward reinforcing the country’s security and guaranteeing democracy in a constitutional state by carrying out police missions in an integral and integrated way and providing minimum and equivalent service on the whole territory. The DJF Directorate carries out specialised and supra-local judicial police missions in accordance with the principles of specialisation and subsidiarity, and offers support to the police authorities and (local) police services.

With professionalism, determination and the will to solve problems the DJF Directorate contributes, with other partners, to better overcome or even reduce security problems by: privileging a dynamic management of specialised data (collecting, processing, circulating and exploiting); contributing to the development of a national police image; developing conceptual models for the way in which phenomena pertaining to economic, financial, fiscal, social, corruption and computer crimes, forgeries and organised frauds present themselves and harmonising the police approach according to the integral and integrated principle;

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focussing on research and development of techniques and tactics specific to the phenomena, for that purpose working out and setting up training and courses; contributing to a general training programme based on core competencies; launching and conducting intricate and large-scale investigations relating to economic, financial, fiscal and social crimes, bribery, subsidy frauds and offences committed within the scope of tenders and procurement contracts; providing – on request – operational support and coordination pertaining to investigations conducted by the decentralised judicial directorates in the judicial districts (PJF/FGP); providing operational and technical support within the scope of computer fraud, enquiries conducted in an automated environment, forgeries and investigations aiming to locate and trace both loot and fugitives; cooperating with national and international partners; establishing cooperation links with partners both in the private and public sector.

The individual rights and liberties as well as every person’s dignity are of paramount importance to the DJF Directorate when executing its missions. Its interventions are distinguished by integrity and impartiality, a sense of responsibility and respect for legal standards. The Directorate is loyal towards the democratic institutions and in its capacity of Directorate it offers a quality service to its clients and partners. In a spirit of mutual respect and esteem all collaborators contribute to a feeling of well-being on the job.

The DJF Directorate is slightly under-staffed, employing presently ten per cent short of the amount of staff who should be placed on the books. Most are police officers, but there are also administrative employees (named CALog) and members detached from other Federal government departments (mainly the Federal Department of Finance, but also from social inspection services). Jointly they put in 507,062 hours of work, the major part of which (34.53%) concerned reactive missions of judicial police. Besides its task of Central Directorate (conceptual work, support, coordination and management control) DJF also has an operational mission mainly carried out by the units OCDEFO/CDGEFID and OCRC/CDBC. Counting the members of personnel seconded from other departments and the personnel on the DJF books, approximately 300 people work on behalf of the DJF Directorate in various capacities.

An employee satisfaction survey revealed that 76.9% of staff members were happy to work at DJF (attributing a score of 8 on a scale of 10 to job satisfaction). Nevertheless the Directorate shall have to face some daunting challenges in the future, one of which is a rapidly ageing staff. Ninety-nine members of staff are over 50 years old and shall retire within the next decade, creating a huge loss of experience and know-how for the organisation, a problem mainly affecting the Anti-corruption unit (OCRC/CDBC). The FCCU on the contrary has a young team and is thus better off pensionwise.

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Another challenge is the current budgetary tightness. Although the budget rose in 2011 compared to 2010 (mainly due to personnel costs), there will be some serious financial cutbacks to consider. While personnel costs take up eighty per cent of the total expenditure of â‚Ź18,655,527, the next big cost appears to be rent for office accommodation. A big move is planned for 2014, meaning that DJF shall leave the premises at the Notelaarsstraat (near EU-district) to be grouped with other police services in one big building in the centre of Brussels (near the Central Station).

DJF expenditure

Category Personnel

Breakdown

2008 12,147,269 423,671

2009 12,261,869 360,937

2010 13,865,453 386,184

2011 14,508,828 412,500

15,000

10,500

27,869

11,091

12,585,940 2,007,373 648,000

12,633,306 2,109,658 499,000

14,279,506 2,131,523 421,631

14,932,419 2,153,614 505,000

113,819

87,744

93,494

93,316

2,769,192 275,310 12,241

2,696,402 21,984 12,281

2,646,648 60,000 12,526

2,751,930 100,000 12,785

61,863

55,912

56,114

64,764

349,414 50,477 63,000

90,177 49,841 62,000

128,640 46,206 69,030

177,549 43,688 43,268

12,400

10,776

3,718

5,906

Computers (investment)

105,210

182,902

46,887

36,796

Subtotal equipment

231,087 43,296

305,519 47,695

165,841 36,980

129,658 48,124

7,320

7,338

6,741

7,326

50,616 81,497

55,033 19,204

43,721 56,131

55,450 62,824

1,200

1,200

1,350

1 350

82,697 431,869 94,380

20,404 813,891 94,380

57,481 531,000 94,380

64 174 410,805 94,380

38,853

33,706

39,194

39,162

565,102

941,977

664,574

544,347

16,634,048

16,742,818

17,986,411

18,655,527

Salaries Overtime etc.

Training Subtotal personnel

Office accommodation

Rent Atrium-building Maintenance Energy (electricity) Subtotal office accommodation

Fleet of vehicles

Investment Maintenance Fuel Subtotal fleet

Equipment

Purchases (investment) Purchases (consumable) Photocopiers (purchase & maintenance)

Communication

Phone & Fax (landlines) Internet Subtotal communication

Miscellaneous

Travel expenses Representation CG PR Subtotal miscellaneous

On behalf of PJF/FGP

Investment ICT, RCCU & FCCU Access database (Euro DB, Cofaces) EcoFin library Subtotal on behalf of PJF/FGP

Total

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2. The Directorate’s units

DJF Directorate’s organisation chart

Director Johan DENOLF

Deputy director

Deputy director

Johan DE VOLDER

Bart DOMBRET

Federal Prosecutor’s Office Supervisory Magistrate Anti-corruption Unit Jean-Pascal THOREAU

Operational units DIR secretariat

Support units

Policy & Strategy Jan BUYS Coordination of Investigations & Information Flow Management

Federal Computer Crime Unit

Luc BEIRENS

Organised Economic and Financial Crime Unit

Veerle DE WOLF

Forgery and Counterfeit Unit

Alain BOUCAR

Anticorruption Unit

Alain LUYCKX

Danièle GOFFINET Personnel & Organisation Anke SALEN

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Four operational units Anti-corruption unit (OCRC/CDBC) The Anti-corruption unit combats briberies by/of public servants, extortion and conflict of interests. In addition, it also detects fraud with tenders, subsidy fraud and private bribery.

This unit also has a section dedicated to fighting football-related fraud (bribery in sports) and is the workplace for police officers attached to the ‘Gaming Commission’1.

While the members working in this unit drew up 5317 police reports in 2010, they only drew up 4701 police reports in 2011 and complied with 1,057 briefs (instructions given by the judicial authorities named ‘apostille’ in French). This is reflected in the following chart.

DJF/OCRC – Briefs & police reports Number of briefs received (evolution in comparison to year x-1)

2008 1,104 14%

2009 1,452 32%

2010 1,335 - 8%

2011 1,057 - 21%

Number of police reports (evolution in comparison to year x-1)

2,994 - 21%

4,538 + 52%

5,317 + 17%

4,701 - 12%

Besides the operational missions that are carried out by most of the staff, the unit also invested in the study of criminal incidents, patterns and trends; leading to among others two analyses, one on public bribery by officials and one on private bribery.

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The gaming commission was instituted by the Act of 07 May 1999.

This body is responsible for : · giving advice to the government and parliament; · making decisions in respect of the licences granted to casinos (licence A), gaming arcades (licence B), drinking establishments (licence C), the personnel working in casinos and gaming arcades (licence D), the suppliers and repairers of games of chance (licence E); · controlling the games of chance; · controlling the holders of licences (and can inflict penalties on them); · ensuring the protection of players and betters.

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Forgery and Counterfeit unit (OCRF/CDBV) Although the Forgery and Money Counterfeit unit (OCRF/CDBV) mainly works for the judicial authorities, it is a key pillar of the administrative authorities. The section ‘false documents’ is in charge of checking and authenticating documents used to identify persons (identity documents, passports, driving licences, etc.). The chart below reflects that while in 2010 technical support was offered regarding 14,358 documents, this support significantly increased to 14,949 documents in 2011.

OCRF/CDBV Technical support in the fight against false documents

Number of documents

14949 15000 14800 14600 14400 14200

14358 14162

14000 13800 13600

13669

13400 13200 13000 2008

2009

2010

2011

Besides qualitative expertise and technical support regarding false documents, the unit also has a section handling the counterfeiting of money that also watches over the official currency of the Eurozone, the euro. The unit provided technical support in 2,323 cases, which was significantly reduced to 1,366 in 2011, as is reflected in the chart below.

OCRF/CDBV Support in the fight against counterfeiting 2323 Number of support given

2500

2009

2000 1366

1298 1500 1000 500 0 2008

2009

2010

2011

It has to be noted that up until early 2011 the unit had a section devoted to the fight against the counterfeiting of consumer goods. However lack of personnel forced the unit to concentrate on its core business and let that section go. This did not pose a major problem as the counterfeiting of goods still comes under the competencies of Customs & Excise and the Federal Department of Economy.

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Organised Economic and Financial Crime unit (OCDEFO/CDGEFID) The Organised Economic and Financial Crime unit (OCDEFO/CDGEFID) is beyond doubt the most complex unit of DJF. It is comprised of a number of sections: - The section Money-laundering/criminal assets is in charge of removing proceeds of crime (through seizure with a view to forfeiture) and combating money laundering.

Its close partner is the Financial Intelligence Processing Unit (the Belgian FIU), which is the authority on preventing the use of the financial system to launder money.

- The section Serious & Organised VAT-fraud can rely on a support team consisting of police officers and tax experts.

- The section Serious & Organised Fiscal fraud deals with a/o income tax fraud.

- Considering that not only fiscal fraud but also social fraud can cause considerable prejudice to the Belgian Treasury, a section Serious and Organised Social fraud was created in 2011. A specially created team, in which four social inspection services are represented, supports it.

- The odd one out is the Fugitives Asset and Search Team (FAST) that traces fugitives trying to evade the course of justice. As soon as the legal frame is adapted, these police officers shall also target the removal of criminal assets during the execution of penalty.

All sections can call upon the fiscal officials who have been put at their disposal (and who have the competence of ‘officer of judicial police’) as well as upon a section called AFA that analyses financial case-related data.

This unit consists of 82 members of staff and drew up 2,842 police reports in 2011, which was an increase compared to 1,898 police reports drawn up in 2010, as is reflected in the following chart.

DJF OCDEFO/CDGEFID – Briefs & police reports

Number of briefs received (evolution in comparison to year x-1) Number of police reports drawn up (evolution in comparison to year x-1)

2008 466

2009 385 - 17%

2010 571 + 48%

2011 963 + 68%

1,612

2,182 + 35%

1,898 - 13%

2,842 + 49%

Some of these police reports relate to the swift intervention of the police and prosecuting authorities, named the REDSOP-procedure. One hundred and twenty million euros was the total amount retrieved in cases in which a swift intervention was made in 2011. Deducting the cases that were dismissed and the cases in which the judge returned the money, as much as €23 million remained seized, which is more than the entire expenditure of DJF. Since its creation FAST has handled 3,463 cases, 564 of which in 2011 and 272 with positive result. This beats the 263 successful cases from 2010 by nine. The vast majority of the arrests occurred outside of Belgium upon locating the fugitive. Most fugitives could be located in Europe, which sustains the importance of the European Network for FAST-teams (ENFAST). Furthermore, 64 arrests were made in Belgium, 46 of which by the section itself.

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Federal Computer Crime unit (FCCU) As the Organised Economic and Financial Crime unit mainly deals with intricate company structures and complex international money flows, the Federal Computer Crime unit (FCCU) moves in the virtual world, the world of computers, tablets, smartphones, bits and bytes. The FCCU fights computer crime on federal level, whereas the Regional Computer Crime units (RCCU) fight computer crime locally. Both conduct forensic searches on, for instance Personal Computers.

In 2010, 31.4 terabytes were analysed, which in 2011 rose to 53.7 terabytes. To deal with the increasing workflow the program ‘Forensic Robust Investigation Toolkit’ (Frit) was developed within the FCCU to enable a simultaneous and automated consultation adapted to the needs of the investigators. Thanks to this program, precious time is saved, both for the FCCU staff and the crime investigators who can carry out their searches in a shorter lapse of time and with a better overview on all the data in their file.

Sadly, the increase in storage capacity with private persons and companies has not triggered an increase of staff. Therefore in 2011 the unit was forced to not only develop new programs, such as Frit, but also to reorganise the unit in two sections and two teams.

Accurate information exchange is of paramount importance in the fight against computer crime and frauds, which is what the Internet Information and Investigation System (I3S) aims at. On-going investigations require a vast amount of identifications of Internet users, approximately 1,988 requests were handled in 2011, which is an increase of nearly 25% in comparison with 2010, as is reflected in the chart below.

FCCU Evolution of identifications 1988

Number of identification request

1917 1740

2000 1800 1600

1596

1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 2008

2009

2010

2011

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ECOPS As computers are increasingly used as tools to commit more traditional crimes using to that end the Internet, the FCCU manages, in collaboration with the Federal Department of Economy, the Belgian online reporting service eCops (www.ecops.be) where Internet users can report offences related to Belgium, committed on or through the Internet.

All too often Internet users mistakenly believe this to be an online service where they can lodge a complaint for an offence they have been the victim of. As an increasing number of people use this contact point as such, it has become hard to effectively manage the workload because victims who lodge complaints on eCops must each time be referred to the local police station.

This requires a structural solution, the more so as the number of ‘reports/complaints’ has risen significantly, as is reflected in the chart below.

DJF/FCCU – eCops: number of reports received and transmitted Total amount of reports to be handled by the Federal Department of Economy Amount of reports to be handled by the Human Trafficking unit Amount of reports to be handled by the FCCU Amount of reports to be handled by the Federal police Total amount of reports through eCops

2009

2010

2011

1,715 2,939 11,753 14,692 16,407

1,582 3,078 13,751 16,829 18,411

1,769 3,524 18,927 22,451 24,220

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Three support units Policy & Strategy (P&S/B&S) The Policy & Strategy (P&S) unit was created following an internal reorganisation of the DJF Directorate mainly to better guide the policy cycle and carry out the required crime analyses within the concept of intelligence led policing.

In 2011, the unit carried out eight analyses (including money laundering, public bribery, computer crime and cash card fraud, VAT fraud, private bribery, fraud with/without Internet and bankruptcy-related fraud).

This unit also organised the ‘strategic seminar 2011’ with ‘integrity’ and ‘strengthened policy cycle’ as themes.

With the collaboration of the Directorate’s secretariat this unit is also in charge of compiling an information booklet in which collaborators are kept informed about the latest – national and international – developments in the field of DJF-issues. This booklet normally appears four times a year under the name ‘Atrium News’.

Coordination of Investigations & Information Flow Management (C&D/C&L) The Coordination of Investigations & Information Flow Management unit (C&D/C&L) is in the main a newly created unit, although some parts of the former and now shut down unit FUSE have been integrated. The unit sees to the coordination of large-scaled investigations (exceeding 3,000 hours), the improved information exchange, the special methods of investigation, and it is the contact point for international police cooperation (for matters concerning DJF). This cooperation has decreased these past years, reaching 3,094 documents in 2011, as is reflected in the chart below.

C&D/C&L Evolution international police cooperation

Number of documents

4860 5000 4500 4000

4300 3940 3094

3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 2008

2009

2010

2011

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The best way to fight fraud is to hit the fraudsters where it hurts them most – their wallet.

Therefore the DJF Directorate has developed a service to query financial institutions (with a view to obtain information within the scope of an investigation or to have an account blocked). Since 2011 there is a legal framework for a central contact point at the National Bank of Belgium, which shall also be available for queries regarding the administrative fiscal cooperation. The government would like to grant access to this database to the police. The number of queries –1,648 in 2011 including 162 blocked accounts – shall probably increase in the future thanks to international cooperation.

C&D/C&L Evolution bank queries and freezing/seizing 1690

1648

Number of queries

1800 1600 1400 1200

1459 1214

1000 800 600 400 200

118

162

102

72

0 2008

2009 bank queries

2010

2011

freezing/seizing

Personnel & Organisation (P&O) Eventually, the DJF Directorate relies on the Personnel & Organisation unit to put in place a modern HRM-policy that is one of the objectives of the police set out in the NSP 2012-2015.

To measure and understand the employees’ motivation and satisfaction at work, the DJF Director asked the Personnel & Organisation unit to carry out an employee satisfaction survey in 2011. The Director presented the results to all members of staff of DJF in a spirit of transparent and participative management.

Preparations are already being made for another employee satisfaction survey to be carried out in 2013.

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3. The Directorate’s vision to meet policy requirements

The Federal police operate following a four-year policy cycle. The theme of the National Security Plan 2008-2011 was: ‘Security and quality of life: your concern, our challenge!’

Part I of the police plan consisted of a general framework, emphasizing the importance of the police in security issues while pointing out that nobody should remain impervious to insecurity. This is why an integrated approach (involving several partners) was required.

Such an approach needed to be both preventive and reactive with an eye for follow-up. To achieve this, an annual action plan had to be devised for every priority crime area.

The identified crime priorities for the period 2008-2011 were among others: • Serious violence-related crimes; • Crimes against property (focus on offender groups); • Serious economic and financial crimes (bribery, fraud and money laundering); • Drugs, production and trafficking, as well as all drug-related crimes; • Serious computer crimes; • Serious environmental crimes; • Domestic violence; • Terrorism; • Etc.

Part II of the NSP defined the police policy for the integrated police (both local and federal), with attention for providing excellent police function (community or specialized policing), ensuring optimal cooperation between the two levels (a/o information exchange) and promoting a result-oriented approach of crime areas proceeding through ‘programmes’2 (integrated and integral approach of a problem).

Part III of the NSP devised the policy and the strategy of the entire Federal police and defines strategic projects, such as: • A result-oriented approach of the priority crime phenomena; • A quality service; • An optimum information management; • Training and skills management; • Use of new technologies.

For the DJF Directorate this implied that two programmes needed to be worked out: - Serious economic and financial crime (including bribery, VAT-fraud, income tax fraud, identity fraud and money laundering); - Serious computer crime.

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Pursuant to article 95 of the Law on the integrated police (LPI/WGP) the General Directorate of the Judicial Police (DGJ) develops programmes for the fight against and the follow-up of certain crime areas (called phenomena) that require an integrated and managerial approach. It does so under supervision of the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Justice within the limits of their respective competences.

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A number of actions were planned on central level that predominantly met with positive results. As regards the Decentralised Judicial directorates (PJF/FGP) (27 in Belgium, spread over Walloon provinces and Flanders and one in Brussels), about ten signed up for the fight against money laundering, some committed themselves to attack fraud and one considered computer crime as priority crime area. None of the Decentralised Judicial directorates put bribery or identity fraud on their priority lists. The zonal security plans3 did not or did hardly include one of those priorities, mainly because the zonal police focus more on crime areas such as burglaries, traffic safety, etc. and less on specialised policing.

The programme put forward strategic and operational goals. The latter were subdivided in conceptual missions, support, coordination, management control and operational missions (for some units). It has been found that data regarding the crime areas of bribery, income tax fraud and money laundering are often not or poorly registered in the Belgian National General Database (BNG/ANG)4. We can conclude that the database is not user-friendly when it comes to intricate crime areas. Unfortunately, in our approach of organised VAT-fraud, we have not succeeded in establishing access to a database containing international company data and a pilot project on equivalent policing was not realised. As the chip-card could not be integrated into the Belgian passports, the regulations on biometrics could not be implemented as regards identity fraud. However as regards computer crime, the major part of the goals was fully reached.

Besides the National Security Plan, a number of actions lie within the framework of the action plans of the ‘College voor de strijd tegen de fiscale en sociale fraude’ (Board for the fight against fiscal and social fraud, founded by a Royal Decree of 29 April 2008 and until end 2011 under the direction of State Secretary Devlies). In addition to contributing to a number of projects, including a/o the ‘Una Via’ principle for combating fiscal crimes either by issuing an administrative penalty or by initiating criminal procedures, the main achievement consisted in laying the foundation for a completely new structure. In the new federal government another State Secretary was appointed to combat fraud, Mr Crombez, whose action plan was approved by the government on 11 May 2012.

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While the National Security Plan focuses on national security policy and the federal police missions, the zonal security plans tackle local issues and police strategies centred on local crime areas.

4 National General Database: a police database in which police officers register all data pertaining to offences.

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4. The Directorate’s international activities

Within the scope of the Belgian Presidency of the EU a conference was held on 9 and 10 September 2010 favouring the creation of a European Network of Fugitive Active Search Teams (ENFAST). In its draft ‘Council Resolution on ENFAST’ (No. 15382/10 ENFOPOL 300 COPEN 233 CRIMORG 187) the Council encouraged the creation of such a network “convinced that the informal network will constitute an ideal forum for the exchange throughout the European Union of non-operational information and experiences and that it will facilitate the establishment and active maintenance of contacts between its members” and “recalling that during the fourth round of mutual evaluation on the European Arrest Warrant the experts stressed the usefulness of the Belgian Fugitive Active Search Team (FAST) as a model of good practice”.

Pending ISEC-project funding, the Network was further consolidated with a conference in Warsaw and Budapest in 2011.

Belgium, France, Spain and the Czech Republic are part of the Steering Group at the basis of the Anti-Money Laundering Operational Network. Its main goal is to create an informal network of national law enforcement anti-money laundering experts to exchange experiences and expertise. The preparatory activities that occurred throughout 2011 led to the official creation in Prague on 27 January 2012.

The Standing Committee on Internal Security (COSI) of the European Council has validated a number of Operational Action plans to tackle strategic objectives for the period 2012-2013.

‘Stepping up the fight against cybercrime and the criminal misuse of the Internet by organised crime groups’ is one of the eight priorities of the policy cycle for 2011-2013, in which Belgium has played an active part as President of the EUCTF (European Union Cyber Task Force).

In addition, within the scope of the EUCTF, Belgium joined efforts with Romania to establish a ‘good practices’ document aimed at supporting States to create an efficient cybercrime unit.

Through the approbation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption resolution 58/4 of 30 October 2003, the Member States consented in submitting themselves to a review mechanism. Belgium and Lithuania were assigned to evaluate Spain. The evaluation committee had two members of the DJF- OCRC/CDBC on board. The activities led to an extensive audit report.

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Part II DJF Achievements

In 2010 the DJF Directorate put forward a number of projects to be achieved in the course of 2011. The annual report gives an account of the goals that were reached and those that were not, in which case it highlights the reasons for failure.

1. A ‘Business Process Reengineering’ project was launched in order to adapt the organisational structure of the DJF Directorate to the evolving needs in the field, taking into account a number of reports that assessed the functioning of the Belgian police. On 1 October 2011 the new structure saw the light. The former five vertical units (Anti-corruption unit / Forgery and Counterfeit unit / Organised Economic and Financial Crime unit / Federal Computer Crime unit / FUSE) were reduced to four losing the FUSE unit, and the former only horizontal Personnel & Organisation unit saw the addition of two new horizontal units, namely the Coordination of Investigations & Information Flow Management unit (C&D/C&L) and the Policy & Strategy unit (P&S/B&S). True to its name C&D/C&L makes sure that investigations are properly coordinated and that information is duly circulated, whereas (P&S/B&S) sees to a better guidance and follow-up of the programmes.

2. The aim was to adapt the SLA but this could not be fully written out partly due to the Business Process Reengineering. The new structure inevitably has an impact on the services that shall be given. In addition the ‘Vast Comité van Toezicht’ (Permanent Committee of Supervision) on the police services has in the meantime made an assessment, revealing the desire to better align the SLA of all central directorates and publish them together. This shall be pursued in 2012.

3. An employee satisfaction survey was planned and carried out in February – March 2011. The response turnout was high with 83% of the staff members taking part. In the current of May and June 2011 the results were presented to the personnel. With the average motivation score of 7.36 out of 10 and a satisfaction score of 6.86 out of 10, DJF scores rather well. Nevertheless there is room for improvement, such as less administrative workload, better communication, etc.

4. Another project consisted in organising a colloquium ‘Google in police investigation’.

This was held on 27 April 2011 and proved to be a huge success, the demand exceeding by far the offer of 357 available seats. The evaluation forms confirmed the appreciation of the persons who were able to attend.

5. DJF reached its project to elaborate and implement a communication and training plan.

Conceptualisation remains high on the agenda for DJF, but suffers from a minor setback as not every EcoFin crime area can benefit from the support of a strategic analyst.

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6. The project to make a strategic analysis about ‘Fraud without Internet’ exceeded its initial goal as on 15 December a CD-ROM was released containing an analysis on the matter, treating both ‘Fraud with Internet’ and ‘Fraud without Internet’.

7. The Directorate General of the Judicial Police (DGJ) intended to develop a lateral project on seizure and confiscation. In 2011 the foundations were laid for a number of policy proposals and the operational aspect was included in the program 2012-2015 paying special attention to detecting (the laundering of) illegally gained assets and their maximal seizure with a view to confiscation.

8. DJF aims to maximize its organisational goals in the individual goals of the members of personnel. In order to do so, the two-year policy and evaluation cycles had to be brought more into line with each other. Although first steps thereto have been taken in 2011, this must be continued in the future.

9. DJF met its project of appointing an information officer in Chief Commissioner Danièle Goffinet. As this is a new and important post, the missions and working methods of the information officer had to be defined. A first analysis is yet to be completed by the working group especially assigned for that purpose.

10. The last project concerned the further development of ‘knowledge management’. The key issue in this were the technical problems it entailed. It turned out that the information could not be made accessible on a unique server, as the latter could not be installed. The judicial information was however collected and an alternative was found for the analyses (publication on the intranet site of the police – poldoc – that can be accessed by all police personnel through an application named Portal).

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Part III DJF’s crime areas within its competence

Money laundering Criminal asset recovery is a key element to the success in fighting money laundering. The police can tackle this on two levels: - either a money laundering investigation (inductive investigations) where the starting point is a suspected financial transaction, the aim being to trace the underlying crime; - or an asset investigation, where the starting point is a crime and the aim is to trace the illegally obtained financial gains (deductive investigations).

IMF has estimated the prejudice caused by this type of offence for 2010 between 6.9 and 17.4 billion euros.

On a yearly basis the Belgian police handle approximately 700 initial police reports, most of which concern investigations on financial transactions that took place in big urban areas (mainly Antwerp and Brussels). Considering that many cases have international aspects, international police cooperation is a big asset in the fight against money laundering. Ergo the creation of the Anti-Money Laundering Operational Network (AMON).

Equally important besides the international aspect is a sound intelligence structure. Part of the information still comes from the preventive line of reports, i.e. suspicious transactions are reported – mainly by bank institutions – to the Financial Intelligence Processing Unit (FIU) to be then transmitted through the prosecuting office to the police. In addition, the police also target the cash transports of money as offenders could attempt to conceal the money flow by transporting it in cash. To this end, a reinforced collaboration with the Customs & Excise Administration is essential as according to the transposed EU-regulation they are the ones competent for carrying out checks on the transport of cash money.

Organised VAT-fraud The Belgian authorities describe organised VAT-fraud as the obtaining of illegal assets by a (criminal) organisation consisting of natural and/or legal persons who mutually agree to not pay the value added tax due to the State and/or to recover an illegally construed VAT-credit, for which purpose they use forgeries and/or fail to comply with prescriptions regarding that tax, all of the aforesaid within the scope of the international trade of goods and/or services (insofar as the fraud is not based on documents only).

The prejudice steadily increased until 2001 when it amounted to 1,100 million euros, but then decreased to just under 27.9 million euros in 2011.

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Organised VAT-fraud prejudice (source: OCS VAT) (in million Euro) 1200

1099 1100

1000 800 578 600 432 400 220 200

129

144

181 27.8

44.2

29.8

79 14.6 17.1

27.9

0 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 VAT prejudice Treasury

Fraud emission rights

Cases are either handled by the Tax authorities or the police when investigations of that nature come within the competence of OCDEFO/CDGEFID or the PJF/FGP.

Bribery Bribery comprises the offences ‘public bribery’, ‘misappropriation of public funds’, ‘conflict of interests’ and ‘embezzlement committed by a government official’. The Belgian police drew up 102 police reports in these matters in 2011.

Whenever the facts exceed the street-level bribery, they are referred to the Anti-Corruption Unit which had 73 on-going investigations in 2011. As the European Union estimated the prejudice of this offence for the Member States to reach up to 120 billion euros per year, we can presume that the investigated cases are just a tip of the iceberg.

Fraud to the prejudice of the European Union This kind of fraud takes on many forms, depending on the various fields in which the European Union invests (regions, agriculture, etc.). The aim is to avoid fraud for each of these fields and to strengthen the administrations. Should errors or frauds nevertheless occur, OLAF shall proceed to conduct an administrative investigation, which in its turn could lead to a preliminary or criminal investigation conducted by the AntiCorruption unit. Such investigations are often very intricate and technical and demand huge capacities.

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Bank card fraud Bank card fraud is an offence against property, in which data from a stolen or copied card (debit or credit) are actually or virtually used. It also concerns the abuse of other financial applications.

The skimming offence of copying data of the magnetic strip of a card and obtaining the pin increased from 2008 to 2010. However as in skimming only the data of the magnetic strip are copied, fraudsters with false cards can only use them in countries where the chip is not required. Thanks to the new security measure of blocking the Maestro function on cards for non-European countries the problem of skimming was successfully contained.

Number offences with skimming MO 2008-2011 (source: Federal police, ANG/BNG, download ASA, 21 FEB 2012) 1722

Number of offences

1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600

806 562

476

400 200 0 2008

2009

2010

2011

Figures show that skimming is on the decrease, but then again they register a rise in shoulder surfing. In cases of shoulder surfing the offender waits and observes an unsuspecting victim entering his PIN and then steals his card. The offenders tend to target older people, figures show that 55% of the victims is older than 65.

Another offence on the rise stems from hacking. Data of credit cards are obtained through hacking databases that store such data. Perpetrators then use these credit card data to make purchases in places where luxury items can be bought and are usually paid for with credit cards (for instance airports, shopping malls, etc.).

Computer crime Computer crime only concerns the attacks on the security of a system or the integrity of data stored in a computer system. It does not concern the use of computer science as means to commit other offences. The number of incidents has been steadily increasing since 2008 (although this includes bank card fraud as the offences bear the same classification) as is reflected in the following chart.

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Number computer crime offences 2008-2011 (source: Federal police, ANG/BNG, download ASA, 21 FEB 2012) 13473

Number of offences

14000 12000

13368

11302 8882

10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 2008

2009

2010

2011

Computer crime is a scourge on society and causes huge prejudices with an annual estimation of at least 1 billion euros. The motives of the perpetrators are divers, ranging from personal motives (opportunity hacking) to political or ideological motives (hacktivism), political or economic motives (espionage), aim to destabilise the critical infrastructure (sabotage), etc.

Especially hacktivism is on the uprise due to among others Anonymous, a movement of civil protest against governments and large companies; for instance hackers breached the security system and plundered 670,000 user names (including passwords, addresses, birthdays, and other information to register accounts) of the Sony PlayStation Network in the USA.

Income tax fraud The fight against income tax fraud is first and foremost conducted by the Tax Authorities.

Nonetheless, in some serious cases the Tax Authorities do refer files to the judicial authorities and the police. On an annual basis this concerns less than 100 case files, although the police annually register approximately 150 initial police reports on income tax fraud (sometimes such facts are reported to the police or detected by police officers in the course of routine investigations).

To conduct their investigations the police can call upon the expertise of fiscal experts put at the disposal of DJF; they can do so for investigations instigated by DJF-OCDEFO/CDGEFID and for those opened at the PJF/FGP. It is important for the future to realise that a choice shall have to be made between an administrative or criminal handling of the matter in accordance with the ‘Una Via’ principle. Up until now, it was possible to conduct two investigations in the same matter, one being administrative and the other criminal and award an administrative sanction as well as a criminal one.

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Fraud with or without Internet The offence of ‘fraud’ is provided for in article 496 of the Belgian penal code, which stipulates as follows: “… having goods/means handed over by the victim by using fraudulent means such as false identity, false function, making the victims believe something”.

In approximately one third of the cases a contact is established between the offender and the victim through the Internet. This percentage has remained fairly stable since 2008.

The total number of registered figures has decreased in 2011 with approximately 12%.

Number of offences

Number fraud offences with/without Internet 2008-2011 (source: Federal police, download ASA, 21 FEB 2012)

16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0

4524

8051

2008

5088

9038

2009 Fraud without Internet

5052 4632

9268

2010

8041

2011

Fraud with Internet

The fraudsters have no difficulties in thinking out of the box. An example of their creativity is the use of emails entitled ‘secret message’ sent to people through a contact person. In order to be able to read the message, the persons are asked to give their user name and password of the mailbox, upon which their mailbox is hacked.

Besides the more inventive MO’s, there are also some recurrent ones such as: • Fraud in online trade; • Advanced fee fraud (fictitious lotteries, sweepstakes and inheritance); • Fraud preying on emotions (friendship, desperate requests for help, particularly after disasters); • Identity fraud (identity theft, but also phishing).

The impact of this phenomenon is often underrated because perpetrators (deliberately) limit their profits to very small amounts in order to reduce the risks of being prosecuted - the more so as these cases are usually handled by the local police - concealing as such the bigger picture. Nonetheless, there are some cases where the loot reaches hundred thousands of euros at a stroke. At CERT5 and FCCU level everything is done to avoid any prejudice by shutting down such phishing websites as soon as possible, 295 times in 2011.

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Computer Emergency Response Team

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Gaming

The violations on the ‘Act on games of chance, gaming establishments and the protection of players’ of 7 May 1999 include violations to the regulations on legal and illegal games of chance, as well as the operating of illegal games of chance.

The Gaming commission has investigated 42 administrative fraud cases, while a total of 212 fraud cases were opened. As with Internet frauds, the impact of gaming is often underestimated. In addition to the obvious risk of getting a gambling addiction, the illegal games of chance are often operated in criminal circles and frequently go hand in hand with economic exploitation, ill-gotten gains, violence, etc. The illegal gains obtained by the organisers often end up in the parallel economy or worse are used to finance other criminal activities. Foremost illegal games of chance are an unfair competition to the legal gaming industry that does pay taxes on its activities.

Fraud with government tenders The Federal police only tackle fraud with government tenders in a repressive way. The Federal Judicial police (PJF/FGP) and the Anti-corruption unit (OCRC/CDBC) had 93 cases under investigation in 2011, at least 44 of which were autonomously handled by the Anticorruption unit. This is presumably but the tip of the iceberg as the annual budget for procurement contracts in Belgium amounts to 8% of the GDP. There is a fair chance that other cases of fraud exist, for instance price-fixings between parties thus unduly raking in contracts, or manipulations of specifications or tenders. The additional charge for society and the State can run up to 65% over the normal price that would have been set and paid.

Counterfeiting of money Counterfeiting encompasses all activities related to the production of false notes and coins and their putting into circulation. In 2011, 24,141 false euro-notes were discovered, which is a strong decrease compared to 2010.

Notes

2008

%

2009

%

2010

%

2011

%

5

81

0.39%

64

0.21%

56

0.12%

79

10

295

1.40%

183

0.60%

190

0.42%

331

1.37%

20

5,180

24.58%

10,917

32.44%

13,644

30.04%

8,450

35.00%

50

10,299

48.87%

12,997

42.37%

24,962

54.97%

10,247

42.45%

100

2,438

11.57%

2,698

8.80%

4,813

10.60%

2,778

11.51%

200

2,682

12.63%

1,576

5.14%

902

1.99%

625

2.59%

500

99

0.47%

3,206

10.45%

846

1.86%

1,631

6.75%

21,074

100%

30,675

100%

45,413

100%

24,141

100 %

TOTAL

0.33%

The €50-note is the most counterfeited note in Belgium. Combined with the €20-note, these represent over 75% of all counterfeit notes. Often the quality of counterfeit notes is quite good thanks to the printing techniques.

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In most cases the counterfeits are only noticed when already in circulation. The police managed however to intercept 2,223 notes before they could be put into circulation as is reflected in the following chart.

2008 Note 5 10 20 50 100 200 500 TOTAL

In circulation 81 263 5,111 10,145 2,379 2,664 95 20,738

2009

Prior to circulation 0 32 69 154 59 18 4 336

In circulation 63 183 9,765 12,742 2,620 1,563 479 27,415

2010

Prior to circulation 1 0 186 255 78 13 2,727 3,260

In circulation 56 186 13,456 23,853 4,676 893 555 43,675

Prior to circulation 0 4 188 1,109 137 9 291 1,738

2011 In circulation 59 161 8,338 9,928 2,720 568 144 21,918

Prior to circulation 20 170 112 319 58 57 1,487 2,223

Not only notes are being counterfeited, so are euro-coins. Nine thousand six hundred and thirty-four were discovered in 2011, which means a steady decrease since 2007 when the number of false coins rocketed, as is reflected in the chart below.

50 cent

1 Euro

2 Euro

Total

2003

1

43

14

58

2004

144

963

1,196

2,303

2005

367

1,113

5,959

7,439

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

1,130 1,469 1,365 1,401 1,992 1,650

1,424 1,851 2,247 1,441 1,297 2,179

14,414 18,738 10,915 7,675 6,461 5,805

16,968 22,058 14,548 10,517 9,750 9,634

Besides false euro-notes and euro-coins, also other currencies circulate in Belgium, including false US dollars (11,013 x 100-dollar notes), Swiss francs (898 x 1000-Swiss franc notes) and British pounds (113 x 20-pound notes).

False documents Both the technical and the tactical approach are a confirmation of our findings of the past years: Technical approach of the documents –

The front line checkpoints (police, municipal administrations, consular posts, etc. but also the private sector) are experiencing more and more difficulties to determine the fraudulent nature (forgery or fake) of a document that is displayed.

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–

–

This poses a problem with the most common documents, such as identity cards, residence documents, driving licences, etc., but is undoubtedly a stumbling block for the enclosures, such as foreign birth or other certificates, etc. The lack of samples makes any decision about the genuineness of the documents even more hazardous.

Although the number of intercepted false documents has stagnated, it must be said that the quality of those documents is steadily getting better.

If in order to determine whether a document is false or not the intervention of an expert is required, a system should be set up where experts can be called in whenever the front line checkpoints have the slightest doubt.

Tactical approach of the documents We notice a constant evolution of both the quality work of the forgers and the abuse of the procedures to get hold of an authentic document or right. What we have named ‘intellectual forgery’ is a priority crime area. Upon the issuance of a genuine document on the basis of a false document that was displayed, interception is only possible on the basis of external elements (suspicions, reports, other judicial findings) that can only be found when specifically tracing evidence proving that the document was unduly obtained.

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– –

Frequently bearers of documents are intercepted who are not the rightful holders of said documents. This concerns the MO better known as ‘lookalike’, i.e. persons who show resemblance to the holder they are carrying the documents of, be it with or without the latter’s consent (loss, theft, etc.). Especially our municipal administrations have to deal with ‘lookalikes’ within the scope of passport applications.

Cases of ‘intellectual forgery’ and ‘lookalike’ require specific expertise and means to conduct the right investigations. Another job for experts.

The introduction of biometric measures and automated checks could offer a solution against the MO of ‘lookalikes’, but that would just ‘move’ our borders to our posts abroad as our civil servants there bear the responsibility to identify the applicant. As said previously, these civil servants do not have the required expertise to detect forgeries.

There is consequently a risk that they shall register the fingerprints of the applicant under another identity. The illegal holder shall then have no problems to gain access to the European territory through an E-gate.

These findings put the Forgery and Counterfeit unit in the place of the front line checkpoint, both for judicial and administrative checks. A situation that cannot last, which is why the Forgery and Counterfeit unit (OCRF-D/CDBV-D) argues for a change in the way checking procedures are approached whereby all parties concerned would be used differently.

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Serious and organised social fraud On July 1, 2011 the Social Penal Code was implemented in Belgium. It contains two parts, the first provides an outline of the penalties (divided over four categories going from administrative to criminal penalties) and the second describes the offences. The new code is a useful instrument in the fight against serious and organised social fraud, where often intricate constructions are set up involving subcontracting, cash-in-hand services, economic exploitation, etc. Following the publication of the code a number of offences have been entered in the police database (ANG/BNG) enabling registration, which in turn will lead to statistics. Sadly, no statistics are available for 2011, but we do know that the FIU (the Belgian Financial Intelligence Processing Unit, founded within the scope of the fight against money laundering) reported 103 possible cases of social fraud to the prosecuting offices.

In conformity with the principle of subsidiarity, this type of fraud can be handled by the inspection services in consent with the labour auditor. In some cases, the police shall join in, which is why in 2011 a coordinating unit (mixed support team) was created consisting of police and inspection services. Their collaboration was laid down in a protocol, in which was agreed that mainly the sector of industrial cleaning would be tackled. This mixed support team has already instigated 41 cases.

The Organised Social Fraud section of DJF/OCDEFO-CDGEFID is presently handling 14 cases, in one of which over 3,000 man-hours have already been put in. This is a clear indication of the complexity and extent of such investigations. It has to be noted that the effort of investigation often matches the prejudice caused, which is sustained by the fact that the financial prejudice for three of the fourteen cases reaches as much as â‚Ź8.6 million.

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Part IV Projects for 2012 The DJF Directorate and its various units have set out a number of goals they would like to achieve within 2012. Among those projects, we highlight the following ten: 1

Putting together a FAQ-sheet for the P&O/HRM unit, in which the most frequently asked questions about training, retirement, career, discipline etc. shall be included;

2

Organising a network named ‘pluk’ (pick) to enhance the loot-oriented investigations by a/o exchanging good practices;

3

Elaborating programmes for crime areas determined as priorities in the National Security Plan 2012-2015 (in particular computer crime, fiscal and social fraud and the transversal project ‘money laundering of criminal proceeds’);

4

Gaining access to an international database containing company data;

5

Implementing the ‘Una Via’ (principle that makes authorities decide, at the outset and based on the gravity, whether they want to fight a fraud case by issuing an administrative penalty or by initiating a criminal procedure – analogy with the criminal double jeopardy rule);

6

Urging the legislator to provide a regulatory framework to enhance the execution of bank warrants and have the police freeze the accounts by extending the single point of contact for collecting information on account numbers;

7

Strengthening the collaboration with the Gaming commission to limit game frauds during the UEFA Euro 2012 and the Olympic games of 2012;

8

Developing a system within the Anti-corruption unit (OCRC/CDBC) to pass on expertise to the ‘younger generation’, a/o by creating a database with useful and indispensable data for every investigator working at said unit;

9

Spreading the experience of the Anti-corruption unit (OCRC/CDBC) on international level, a/o through a project for Bulgaria and Serbia;

Working out a procedure with the ‘Service for administrative simplification’ for a more effective approach to fight identity fraud.

And finally but by no means least, the DJF Directorate intends to organise a new colloquium on ‘Google - Internet research’ to give the persons, who wished to attend the first time but could not due to the huge response, a chance to do so.

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Acronyms and abbreviations

English

French

Dutch

Anti-Money Laundering Operational Network Financial analysis cell

Réseau opérationnel de lutte contre le blanchiment d’argent Cellule Analyse financière

Cel Financiële Analyse

BNG ANG

National general database

Banque de données nationale générale

Algemene nationale gegevensbank

BelNIS

Belgian National Information Security

Federaal overlegplatform informatieveiligheid

C&D C&L

Coordination of Investigations & Information Flow Management

Plateforme fédérale de concertation pour la sécurité de l’information Coordination des enquêtes & Direction des flux d’informations

CALog

Administrative personnel

Membre du personnel du cadre administratif et logistique

Leden van het administratief en logistiek kader

CTIF CFI

Financial Intelligence Processing Unit

Cellule de traitement des informations financières

Cel voor financiële informatieverwerking

DGJ

General Directorate of the Judicial Police

Direction générale de la police judiciaire

Algemene directie van de gerechtelijke politie

DJF

Economic and Financial Crime Directorate

Direction criminalité économique et financière

Directie economische en financiële criminaliteit

ENFAST

European Network Fugitive Active Search Team Fugitive Asset Search Team

AMON AFA

FAST FCCU

Coördinatie onderzoeken & Leiding infoflux

Federal Computer Crime Unit

FRIT

Forensic Robust Investigation Toolkit

(consultation simultanée et automatisée des données)

(simultane en geautomatiseerde gegevensbevraging)

LPI WGP

Law on the integrated police

Loi sur la police intégrée

Wet op de geïntegreerde politie

OCDEFO CDGEFID

Organised Economic and Financial Crime Unit

Office central de lutte contre la délinquance économique et financière organisée

Centrale dienst voor de bestrijding van de Georganiseerde Economische en Financiële Delinquentie

OCRC CDBC

Anti-corruption Unit

Office central pour la répression de la corruption

Centrale Dienst voor de Bestrijding van de Corruptie

OCRF CDBV

Forgery and Counterfeit Unit

Office central pour la répression des faux

Centrale Dienst voor de Bestrijding van Valsheden

PJF FGP

District Judicial Directorate (~Criminal Investigation Department) Personnel & Organisation

Police judiciaire fédérale

Federale gerechtelijke politie

Personnel & Organisation

Personeel & Organisatie

Policy & Strategy

Politique & Stratégie

Beleid & Strategie

National Security Plan

Plan national de sécurité

Nationaal Veiligheidsplan

Value Added Tax

Taxe à la valeur ajoutée

Belasting over de Toegevoegde Waarde

United Nations Convention against corruption

Convention des Nations Unies contre la Corruption

Verenigde Naties Verdrag tegen corruptie

P&O P&S B&S PNS NVP TVA BTW UNCAC

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