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Suspected of money laundering, the former European commissioner is questioned by the Belgian authorities

Politiko 2024-12-04 09:37:18

Suspected of money laundering, the former European commissioner is questioned by

Former Belgian minister and former European commissioner Didier Reyders has been questioned by Belgian police as part of a money laundering investigation.

FP reports that the investigation, which is the responsibility of the Brussels public prosecutor, began in 2023, following a complaint by the Financial Intelligence Service and the National Lottery.

Renders, 66, is suspected of laundering money by buying lotteries and other games of chance when he was still a federal government minister, but the amount has not yet been specified.

Two days after the end of his term at the Commission, Reyders was asked to answer questions by the police, but was not detained. According to information, his vacation home in Wallonia was also searched.

The European Commissioner, responsible for Justice in the first mandate (2019-2024) of Ursula von der Leyen as President of the Commission, was responsible, among other things, for the protection of the rule of law in the EU.

Previously, the liberal was a member of Belgian governments for twenty years. He stayed for years as finance minister (1999-2011), then took the post of foreign minister (2011-2019).

This year he was a candidate for re-election as Belgium's European commissioner, but his faction, the Reform Movement (Mouvement réformateur, MR, liberal), preferred instead Haja Labib, 54, a former journalist and from July 2022, head of the Belgian Diplomacy.

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