You can hardly believe it, but it is true, in our country driving lessons are given by driving instructors with forged authorization passes. So there are students who have been taught by unauthorized driving instructors and, in retrospect, have wrongly obtained a driving license. Police report that they recently completed a major investigation into identity fraud in CBR exams and driving lessons. Several people have been arrested for this and also teaching cars, forged ID cards and cash have been seized. The investigation started in January last year. The CBR had already reported identity fraud to the police several times.

The case came to light during the identity check by CBR employees. They found professionally falsified ID documents at various locations in the Netherlands. How can you protect yourself as a student against these kinds of practices? You can always ask your driving instructor for his or her license. You can also on the website yourself: ibki.nl To check whether a driving instructor has WRM authorization, you must know his or her last name. You can also see what a valid driving instructor's license looks like on this website. The CBR reports that they work closely with the police and the Public Prosecution Service. The number of fraud reports related to an exam in which a report was made to the police was eleven times in 2018, sixteen times in 2019 and nine times last year.

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