Fiscal Information and Investigation Service

The Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (Dutch: Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst, FIOD) is an agency of the government of the Netherlands responsible for investigating financial crimes.

It is part of the Tax and Customs Administration, which itself falls under the responsibility of the Dutch Ministry of Finance.

The FIOD-ECD was formed when the FIOD and the ECD (Dutch: Economische Controledienst) were merged in 1999.

[1] Any one of the five main Dutch ministries (Economics, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Health, Welfare and Sports) can order the FIOD to act on information of suspected fraud.

[citation needed] It has cooperated with BREIN to investigate p2p sites hosted in the Netherlands.