Intriguing true cases: Discover dark practices
Discover shocking real-life stories from the floriculture industry. Read how seemingly normal situations turn into criminal activities. Be informed and alerted by these true cases.
Drug line via flower transport
Flowers as cover: drug money and cocaine discovered in floriculture transport after anonymous tip. Drivers arrested, flowers lost.
Smuggling and tax evasion
Driver caught: cigarette smuggling yields luxurious life, but ends in arrest in France.
Own employee works for criminals
Planner at flower exporter leads double life: smuggling, threats and arrest by authorities.
Drugs found in spare tire
Flower driver caught in UK: drugs hidden in heavy spare tire, driver faces hefty penalty.
This is how criminals sneak into your business - watch the animations
Criminals work in sophisticated ways. They use your business processes – and sometimes even your employees – unnoticed. The animations below briefly show situations that have actually occurred. See something that doesn’t make sense? Are you in doubt about something? Always report it!
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Report a suspicious situation immediately!
“With the growth of our company, you no longer know all employees and customers personally. Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility that our transports could be misused. An unannounced check with tracking dogs already makes this much less attractive. “
Dennis Royers
RVE
“We simply climbed over the fence at night and exchanged a filled fire extinguisher. Thus, the driver still drove for us without knowing it. “
Michael
Ex criminal
“It is important that we all realize how vulnerable we can be as a floriculture industry. And that we act together in this. Because together you are strong. “
Steven van Schilfgaarde
CEO Royal FloraHolland
“They pressed a drill into the bottom plate of the bottom of the flower carts and it turned out to be in there.“
Jan
Transporter
“Be alert and realistic. Don’t think, it’s not going to happen to me. “
Bouke Arends
Mayor Municipality of Westland