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Dutch officials plan to adopt their own version of an unexplained wealth order, a civil authority that the U.K. and a handful of other countries use to restrain the domestic assets of foreign politicos and other individuals suspected, but not yet convicted, of corruption or other crimes. In a letter to the Dutch House of Representatives on Friday, Ferd Grapperhaus, the justice and security minister of the Netherlands, said that existing powers to permanently seize assets from individuals upon their conviction by a court of law no longer suffice to meet the challenge posed by organized crime in the country....