The federal judicial police (PJF) arrested Luc Martens, former minister and mayor of Roeselare, final Thursday, the Kortrijk part of the West Flanders prosecutor’s workplace mentioned on Thursday. The person, aged 78, is suspected of fraud, forgery, breach of belief, use of forgery and cash laundering. He was launched on circumstances by the investigating choose.
The previous minister and honorary mayor of Roeselare had already made headlines final September. We then discovered that a number of pleasant entrepreneurs from West Flanders had lent him massive sums of cash which he was unable to repay. In complete, he’s mentioned to have misplaced 3 million euros in bitcoin scams. The court docket determined to open a judicial investigation. As a part of a number of civil proceedings, Luc Martens has already been ordered to repay a number of of those loans, the overall quantity of which is alleged to quantity to multiple million euros.
The PJF arrested the septuagenarian final Thursday. Suspected of fraud, forgery, breach of belief, use of forgery and cash laundering, he appeared final Friday earlier than the investigating choose, who determined to launch him below circumstances.
