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Justice has not recovered 1.05 billion euros in criminal fines and confiscations in the last five years, according to figures from the FPS Finance obtained by L'Echo and De Tijd Thursday.
The state has been able to recover only 38% of the amount of criminal fines and confiscations ordered by courts in the last five years.
Justice and Finance find it difficult to force convicts to pay, despite legislation introduced in 2014 to investigate this recovery. Magistrates have been specifically badigned to these tasks, but no new posts have been created for this purpose, and the public prosecutor's offices, public prosecutors' offices, labor inspectors and general prosecutors have failed to enforce judgments and judgments.
On condition of anonymity, a judicial source regrets that we "do not stop putting means to put people in jail but not to take their dough". According to many judicial sources interviewed by L'Echo, the vast majority of this money that must be seized concerns organized crime files (drugs, human trafficking, prostitution …) in which justice is far too slow and often gives the convicts time to organize their insolvency and to hide their badets outside Europe.
"There is a significant source of money," insists Christian De Valkeneer, general prosecutor of Liège. Better recovery would be an important source of income for the Belgian State.
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