In the media
Articles on crime in the floriculture industry.
Latest News
National media
- FD: Coke among flowers how the mafia undermines ornamental horticulture
- Telegraph: Kilos of gold and coke in Dutch truck carrying flowers
- Hart van Nederland: Crime in floriculture big problem, here’s how it’s countered
- AD: Floriculture sector vulnerable to criminals, justice minister talks to Flora Holland about cracking down
- New Harvest: Minister van Weel looks at tackling undermining crime
- AD: “Criminals deviously exploit ornamental cultivation”
- FD: “Ornamental horticulture sector resists undermining activities”
- New Harvest: “Third center Resilient Floriculture open in Rijnsburg”
- RTL News: “Minister Yesilgöz pulls out money to protect truck drivers from drug criminals”
- BNR: “Netherlands wants international cooperation against drug crime”
- Telegraph: “No tulips, but five kilos of ecstasy, soft drugs and firearm in Heerlen flower store”
- Greenhouse Magazine: “Arming ornamental cultivation against crime”
Local media
- BP News: Working together for a resilient ornamental horticulture sector
- BP News: Organized crime capitalizes on fine-grained logistics of floriculture sector
- BP News: 100 kilos of coke among flowers at Aalsmeer auction
- Floranews: Safety Week: Recognize signs of undermining before it’s too late
- BP News: Minister David van Weel in conversation about undermining and security in the floriculture sector
- Good Morning Horticulture: ‘Checks against criminal interference in ornamental horticulture’
- WOS: “Safety Week: we’re pretty vulnerable”
- BP news: “Resilient Floriculture shares stories of experience in podcast series”
- Floranews: Checks against criminal interference in floriculture sector
- Floranews: A transporter tells his story: framed!
- BP news: A transporter tells: framed!
- MKB Westland: Successful meeting on undermining in SMEs
- BP news: Cooperation is the big win of Weerbare Sierteeltsector approach
- Hortibiz Radio: Greenhouse Live with Weerbare Sierteeltsector
- Floranews: Third Center Weerbare Sierteeltsector opened in Rijnsburg
- All About Katwijk: Opening Center Weerbare Sierteeltsector in Rijnsburg
- RTV Katwijk: Center against undermining at Rijnsburg flower auction
- Floranews: New Center Weerbare Sierteeltsector in Naaldwijk
- Rodi: Second Center Weerbare Sierteeltsector at FloraHolland
- Floranews: Checks at auction sites against criminal interference in ornamental horticulture sector
- Westlanders.nu: Check at flower auction against criminal interference in ornamental horticulture sector
- WOS: Checks at auction sites against crime in ornamental horticulture sector
- Nhnieuws: “Two boxes of cocaine found at flower company in Aalsmeer”
Approach
- Police make drug discovery in flower cargo in Aalsmeer
- Police check 140 trucks at Royal FloraHolland against undermining
- Quarter of truckers checked are-possibly-with-drugs-on-the-wheel
- Cocaine found again at Aalsmeer floriculture company, this time in the auction grounds
- Drug discovery during action by cooperating parties on Royal FloraHolland Aalsmeer property
- Drug discovery on grounds of Royal FloraHolland Aalsmeer
- New approach should end drug trafficking through Dutch flower auction
- ‘You only have to cast the net and a lot of misery immediately surfaces: exploitation, money laundering, drug smuggling.’ In the flower trade, criminals have had their way for years, but agencies are now joining forces
News Archive
- Royal FloraHolland: Official opening of second Center Weerbare Sierteeltsector
- Police: drug smuggling between flowers is serious problem
- Utrechter denies smuggling hundreds of pounds of drugs but remains detained
- Leiden man arrested for drug smuggling through flower consignments
- Flowers are an ideal cover-up for criminals
- NOS: “Criminals in flower trade: risk according to report but still too little action”
- NOS: “Flower industry asks for help to tackle crime”
- AD: “From drug smuggling to money laundering: criminals love Dutch flower auctions”
- NRC: “Flower and plant sector attractive to smuggling and money laundering”
- Telegraph: ‘Flower shipments attractive to drug criminals’
- Broadcaster West: “Flower industry wants more money against criminals: we have to make do with one neighborhood cop”
- NH News: “Mayor on crime at flower auction: mafia not yet gone”
- WOS: “Ornamental horticulture sector attractive to undermining crime”
- City Index: “Investigation report: Aalsmeer flower auction attracts criminals”
- AD: “Ornamental cultivation ideal network for criminal activity: Shocking that the sector is so vulnerable”
- Leidsch Dagblad: ” Floriculture sector attractive to criminals: As mayor, I receive increasingly alarming signals about drug captures in flower shipments abroad”
- 8 p.m. news of March 4, 2021
- 18h journal of March 4, 2021
- Youth News of March 4, 2021
- Hortipoint: “Eradicating ornamental crop crime starts with recognizing oddities”
- BP news: ‘Ornamental horticulture sector vulnerable to abuse by criminals’
- Tranport online: “Survey: Floriculture sector vulnerable to abuse by criminals”
- Royal Flora Holland: “CEO seminar Weerbare Sierteeltsector”
- Whole Westland: “Additional data analysts and intensify cooperation against undermining”
- Staff at Schiphol arrested after intercepting 321 kilos of cocaine
- Police find 120 kilograms of hemp buds among load of flowers in Susteren
- Drug gang rounded up operating at Aalsmeer flower auction
- Crazy loaded carts and hidden rooms: this is how a coke gang went about its business at the flower auction
- Criminal organization at flower auction rounded up
- Customs Schiphol discovers large batch of cocaine
- Four man jailed for drugs among flowers on Scandinavia
- Arrests for drug shipments to Scandinavia
Own publications “Mainport in the Second Line”
- Royal FloraHolland: ‘Ornamental horticulture sector vulnerable to abuse by criminals’
- Westland Municipality: ‘Ornamental horticulture sector vulnerable to abuse by criminals‘
- Aalsmeer municipality: ‘Ornamental horticulture sector vulnerable to abuse by criminals‘
- Municipality of Katwijk: “Solid report on criminal threat around the ornamental horticulture sector”
- Uithoorn municipality: ‘Ornamental horticulture sector vulnerable to abuse by criminals’
- VGB: “Together toward a resilient floriculture sector”
Campaign “Instead of flowers…”
- Floriculture campaign from Report Crime Anonymously https://www.meldmisdaadanoniem.nl/campagnes/sierteelt/
- BP news: “Repeated call to ornamental growers: report crime”
- Hortipoint: “Report Crime Anonymously campaign to raise awareness of crime in ornamental horticulture”
- 0297.co.uk: “Campaign against crime in floriculture”
- Instead of flowers… Campaign in ornamental horticulture https://riecaa.nl/2245/
