23:33 – TC NIVELLES – Eighteen months in prison for the development of a cannabis plantation in Ittre

The criminal court of Walloon Brabant sentenced Wednesday by Argyro R, a 36-year-old Greek national who is homeless in Belgium, to ten months in prison and a fine of 8.000 euros. The court also pronounced against this defendant the confiscation of an amount of 10,000 euros. In March 2016, she rented a house in the Ittre countryside, in which police officers from the West Walloon Brabant area found the remains of a cannabis plantation that had been exploited for one year. alerted the authorities in the spring of 2017. After noting that a back door of the house was constantly open, a curious resident went for a ride and sniffed the smell of cannabis. He warned the police and agents of the West Walloon Brabant area have found on the floor of the house two rooms that had been developed to house a cannabis culture. Cultural equipment and crop remains were still on site but no one was there. When questioned, the owner of the house explained that he had rented his property from 2016 to the defendant. This one had presented to the neighbors several men who worked on the spot and which could not be identified. Argyro R., she was recognized on photo. According to the investigators' findings, which were used as a basis for setting the amount to be confiscated from the defendant, three harvests were carried out on the spot before Ittre's house was deserted by its tenant and those who were working on the maintenance. of the cannabis plantation that had been installed there. (Belga)

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