In addition, the agency helped with the purge of the police and administrative bodies and kept an eye on Indonesian activists, the BNV also investigated the activities of Reinder Zwolsman and other collaborators.
[1] In this way, the Political Crimes Service of Wim Sanders, which was involved in tracking down collaborators and war criminals, was also included in the BNV (as Bureau D).
On behalf of the Ministry of Justice, which wanted to take over the security task, Sanders secretly made copies of hundreds of BNV files.
[2] As a result of the Sanders affair and complaints about abuses within the BNV, Prime Minister Beel set up the Wijnvelt Committee, which issued a 191-page report on 12 May 1948.
[3] In January 1946, the government had already decided to dissolve the BNV on 31 December of that year, as there appeared to be no longer any question of German sabotage activities.