(NL Times) At least ten municipalities commissioned undercover investigators to visit mosques and collect sensitive information on administrators, imams and teachers, the NRC reported. The municipalities that ordered the investigations included Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Zoetermeer. Utrecht halted the investigations after concerns about the investigation method.
Expert[s] told the NRC that this form of research is a privacy violation. The investigators were paid for by the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV). The NCTV brought municipalities into contact with the company NTA, a consultancy that informs the government on radicalization issues.
The municipalities were said to have spent a maximum of 300 thousand euros on the investigations.
