Former Dutch military police officer suspected of using his authority to steal cryptocurrency; prosecutors seek 6-month prison sentence

Dutch prosecutors have asked for a six-month prison sentence for a former Royal Marechaussee (KMar) investigator accused of using his official access to police systems to steal more than €6,000 in cryptocurrency from a traveler who had been checked at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. According to the OM's November 9 announcement, the suspect looked up the traveler's police file in October 2025, retrieved the 24-word recovery phrase stored in the earlier case record, and moved the wallet's assets to his own account before converting and reinvesting them in other cryptocurrencies. Investigators found he subsequently queried the victim's police records about 20 more times. The suspect has been dismissed and prosecutors are also seeking restitution of the stolen funds to the victim. The case now awaits a court ruling, with the outcome to be watched as a test of how Dutch authorities treat misuse of police data access in crypto theft.