Netherlands — Newspaper ties €70M laundering fine to Brink's-Mat figure

Dutch prosecutors fined Rotterdam investment firm MCL Nederland €70 million for money laundering in 2024.

The money sat in an ING account that the bank froze in 2015 after it began asking questions.

The Financieele Dagblad traced the account to Geoffrey Greenlees, a British man first named in connection with the 1983 Brink's-Mat heist in a 1990 court case.

Greenlees died before the case closed.

Prosecutors told the paper they found no evidence the money came from the three tonnes of gold stolen at Heathrow.