Extortion is a form of theft in which the extortionist uses coercion by force or intimidation to pay money or deliver items.

Labor exploitation involves a combination of severe, often inhumane workplace situations involving coercion, unilateral dependence, violence, blackmail, fraud or deception.

Blackmail is forcing someone to do something under the threat of bringing out information that may be negative for that person.
It differs from extortion in that there need not be a threat of violence.

Corruption is the abuse of authority or power for personal gain, such as bribery or extortion.

Criminal gangs transport drugs in and out of the Netherlands, also produce all kinds of hard drugs in the Netherlands and resell it.
Many cocaine and synthetic drugs go abroad and some go to users in our country.

Drug trafficking means growing, preparing, processing, selling, delivering, dispensing, transporting and manufacturing soft and hard drugs.

Criminals are inventive and creative when it comes to smuggling methods, which makes detection by (international) authorities difficult.
Transport of manufactured soft and hard drugs goes via ships, planes and trucks with goods as cover cargo.

Fraud is intentional deception to obtain an undue advantage.
This financial-economic form of crime is a serious social problem that harms citizens, businesses and the government financially.

Harassment involves making someone fearful by threatening negative consequences.
This can be verbal, as well as physical or written.
Through threatening e-mails or text messages, by acting angry or making fun of someone with words.

Power is the ability to direct others’ behavior.
We speak of abuse of power when someone directs the behavior of others in a direction that is more convenient especially for themselves.
And when they make others do things they don’t really want to do.

Criminals use legitimate businesses and their services for illegal activities. Consider transportation of narcotics, bribery or labor exploitation. This form of serious, organized crime disrupts society and undermines the rule of law.

A work environment is socially unsafe when a person faces bullying, harassment, abuse of power, humiliation, discrimination or aggression at work.
Gossiping, withholding information, unequal treatment or exclusion are also characteristic of a socially unsafe work environment.

Recruiting is recruiting someone – often involuntarily – for a particular purpose. Criminals try to draw the person into their world of crime so they can take advantage of them. It often involves a (violent) dependency relationship.

Money laundering gives illegal money a legal origin.
With the aim of disguising asset growth and origin of the money.