In which sectors are business owners most likely to have been convicted of a drugs offence?
Some 0.7 percent of firms in the Netherlands have an owner or manager that has been convicted of a drugs offence – a total of 11,560.
In some sectors and industries, the risk of criminal subversion is relatively high. These are ‘vulnerable sectors’.noot1 An example would be a company with a permit to purchase the chemicals required to make synthetic drugs. When we compare these sectors, the share of firmsnoot2 where an owner (or driver) had been convicted of a drugs offence is highest in the courier services sector at 3.6 percent. This was followed by the transportation sector at 2.6 percent and wholesale waste and scrap at 2.0 percent. The construction sector ranked in joint third place, with 2.0 percent of business owners and/or drivers convicted of a drugs offence.
Source
Criminal Subversion Dashboard (in Dutch)
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Vulnerable sectors
For the Criminality Subversion Dashboard, a list of potentially vulnerable sectors was compiled in consultation with project leaders from municipalities and experts in the field. The share of owners and directors with convictions is then calculated for these sectors.
Firms
A firm is added to the dashboard if at least 25 percent of its directors or 25 percent of its owners have been convicted for drugs offences in the past ten years. All subsidiaries and establishments that fall under that firm are then also counted.