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Key Takeaways
- Dutch Police will host a crypto crime and investigations session at Dutch Blockchain Week 2026, held June 22-28 at the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam.
- Dutch authorities built significant blockchain forensics capabilities through high-profile cases including the Tornado Cash prosecution, in which Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to five years and four months.
- Dutch courts now routinely admit blockchain-derived evidence under existing electronic evidence standards, requiring no new legislation.
The Dutch Police will host a dedicated session on cryptocurrency crime and investigations at Dutch Blockchain Week 2026 in Amsterdam, joining regulators, banks, and exchanges on the conference program running June 22 through 28. The appearance follows a period of active blockchain enforcement by Dutch authorities, including a landmark mixer prosecution and a recent court ruling admitting on-chain evidence in a criminal case.
Dutch Blockchain Week 2026 Brings Together Regulators, Banks, and Exchanges
The flagship summit, held at the Johan Cruijff ArenA on June 24 and 25, features sessions on stablecoins, tokenization, compliance, and digital asset infrastructure. Speakers from the Dutch Ministry of Finance, Deloitte, PwC, Watsonlaw, and Zerohash Europe are featured across summit and breakout sessions, alongside representatives from Visa, Kraken, and Chainlink.
Organizers have described the 2026 edition as a move away from hype-driven programming, with more than 40 side events ranging from private investor roundtables to technical workshops running alongside the main summit.
Dutch Authorities Have Built Blockchain Forensics Capabilities Through High-Profile Cases
The Dutch Police have developed significant blockchain forensics capabilities in partnership with the Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Service, known as FIOD, developing the ability to trace illicit financial flows across wallets, exchanges, and mixing services.
The most prominent demonstration of those capabilities came through the Tornado Cash case, in which Alexey Pertsev, co-founder of the Ethereum-based mixer, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison. A Dutch court relied heavily on on-chain evidence to link the protocol to the laundering of over $1.2 billion in stolen digital assets.
In December 2025, Dutch police warned 300 people nationwide that they had been defrauded in large-scale cryptocurrency investment schemes and online job-review scams, following an international investigation by Coinbase and Europol. That operation involved victim notification, cross-border coordination, and consumer alerts.
Dutch Courts Continue to Accept Blockchain-Derived Evidence
Dutch courts have continued to admit blockchain-derived evidence in criminal proceedings. In a data trafficking case decided in the weeks immediately preceding Dutch Blockchain Week, a Dutch court admitted blockchain evidence and handed down a two-year prison sentence.
Under the Netherlands’ admissibility framework, blockchain evidence falls under existing electronic evidence standards, with courts evaluating reliability based on cryptographic hashes, timestamps, and the underlying properties of the protocol, requiring no new legislation.
Dutch Police Session Joins Compliance and Regulatory Programming at Summit
The Dutch Police session is scheduled alongside compliance and regulatory programming at the summit, where exchanges, legal counsel, and infrastructure providers are among the registered attendees.
Exchanges operating in the Netherlands are subject to registration requirements that predate MiCA, and the Netherlands enforces those standards under its existing regulatory framework. Dutch courts have accepted blockchain evidence under existing electronic evidence standards, without requiring new legislation.
