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Recent months have seen the Dutch Financial Intelligence Unit increasingly bring its analytical capabilities to bear to advance local investigations in the Netherlands, Hennie Verbeek-Kusters, head of the agency since 2008 and chair of the Egmont Group of FIUs, said in a recent interview. According to Verbeek-Kusters, the Dutch FIU's analysis of transactions tied to a district in south Rotterdam proved instrumental in cracking down on unscrupulous money services businesses in the city last year, and is currently helping map criminal networks in the south of the country. Local assistance forms part of a broader strategy of using data analytics...