Productions
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24 April 2006
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ORF Weltjournal
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Dutch liquidations |
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After a new liquidation Alexander Steinbach from ORF Weltjournal comes to The Netherlands to find out more about the long series of criminal murders taking place in and around Amsterdam. It seems that the underworld made its way up into the straight world. Huge criminal profits are invested in real estate via traders and information is leaked by corrupt police. Since the early nineties of the last century dozens of criminals, real estate traders and lawyers have been brutally killed, often in broad daylight and in the middle of the street. Steinbach looks for answers meeting a known and well-informed crime journalist, a criminal law lawyer with a history as a leader of an Amsterdam police infiltration team and a professor of the Dutch Police Academy. They all state that the Dutch criminal branch is turning into a mafia like world, where huge sums of drugs money have to be laundered causing serious corruption, especially in the real estate branch, at law firms and at the police.
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