An unscrupulous accountant had hijacked 350,000 euros

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He had diverted 350,000 euros to the detriment of the Catholic Guides of Belgium (GCB) and the Orpea group of nursing homes.

The Brussels Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a forest accountant to a 38-month suspended prison sentence for embezzling a total of around 350,000 euros to the detriment of the Catholic Guides of Belgium (BCG) and the group of maisons de Orpea rest. The court ruled that the charges of forgery, forgery, embezzlement, fraud and breach of trust were established on the part of the defendant, a 30-year-old accountant who was confessed.

Moreover, he rejected the defense's argument, which, as the main argument, called for the inadmissibility of the prosecution on the ground that bank secrecy was violated during the investigation.

The judge took account of the "height of misappropriated sums " and some "persistence of the accused in delinquency". She emphasized the need to pronounce a sentence that could "deter the accused from any recurrence", he who "was not on his first try."

She thus handed down a 38-month probation sentence and a fine of 6,000 euros with a simple suspended sentence.

The defendant, who is now accountant in a fiduciary and who is also a lecturer at Ifapme, was convicted of having, between 2013 and 2014, diverted a total sum of money of approximately 120 000 euros to the prejudice of the Orpea group of nursing homes. These were amounts that were to be paid to the beneficiaries of deceased seniors in the seniories of this group.

He is also prosecuted for having, between 2012 and 2014, embezzled a total sum of money of approximately 230,000 euros to the prejudice of the ABSL Catholic Guides of Belgium, via a process of false expense reports and credit notes " swollen ". There were 196 irregular notes.