We have a lot of registers and depending on the licence the company or person receives it will be made public. Things like building changes, export of live animals etc. You can look some up over here: nvwa.nl/…/overzicht-bedrijven-met-erkenningen-reg…

Weapon licences go through the police instead of the government itself justis.nl/…/een-ontheffing-op-de-wet-wapens-en-mu… the office of justice needs to sign it off it seems.

So it just works differently, if you would want to pass a law that changes how those licences are signed, it would be known, and you wouldn’t be the person signing it. The office of justice would be, and probably it is checked multiple times before it even gets there that it isn’t financing terrorism or something which is illegal according to the WWFT and some other laws.

Pretty sure a journalist is allowed to write about anything and everything www.rijksoverheid.nl/…/persvrijheid-bewaken there are probably some exceptions on things like kids etc, but a public spokesperson doesn’t have that anyway.

This law goes on about the open government: wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0045754/2025-07-01 And there are multiple parties who try and keep businesses somewhat in check (like accountants, the fiod, etc.)

So if you would try and pull this off in The Netherlands you would have a hard time doing it and I doubt you can do it without somebody being a whistleblower.