Netherlands

Netherlands

The Dutch Desk is headed by Alexander van Dam, who is the National Member for the Netherlands since January 2022.

In 2023, the Dutch Desk was involved in 619 new cases, 102 coordination meetings, 3 coordination centres, and 17 joint investigation teams.

National Member

Alexander van Dam
Mr Alexander van Dam

National Member

Alexander van Dam has been National Member for the Netherlands since January 2022. Prior to his appointment at Eurojust, Mr van Dam worked as Resident EU Prosecutor in Belgrade, Serbia, under the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) programme. Before taking up his current role, in 2019 and 2020 he worked as Acting Director of the National Prosecution Service, following his time as Prosecutor General for the Dutch country of Aruba between 2016 and 2019.

Previously, Mr van Dam was Deputy Chief Prosecutor in the district Zeeland/West-Brabant and senior prosecutor and magistrate in the districts of Amsterdam, The Hague and Haarlem. Before joining the prosecution services, between 1994 and 1999 he was a financial analyst in the Dutch Security Service AIVD, following a two-year traineeship with banking company ABN Mees Pierson in London and Amsterdam.

Mr van Dam graduated in 1990 with a Master of Law in Civil Law, International and European Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands. In 2012, he obtained a Master’s degree in Public Administration at the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB). Over the years, Mr van Dam has built up extensive international experience, for instance in cases concerning terrorism and financial investigations.

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Casework

 

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

New cases (total)
- of which initiating
- of which participating

323
114
209

419
120
299

454
162
292

473
138
335

504
103
401

582
147
435

619
133
486

Coordination meetings (initiating and/or participating)

70

87

120

90

90

81

102

Coordination centres (organising and/or participating)

10

2

4

8

9

6

3

Joint investigation teams (newly signed and/or ongoing)

6

24

28

21

21

17

17


Case examples

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