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2023-10-04 15:13:00

While the finances of the place were not the most flourishing, Thomas submitted a VAT declaration for the third quarter of 2019. He then reported an investment of 618,000 euros in the building! A declaration which gave the right to a reimbursement of 118,000 euros… As soon as this sum arrived in Yohan’s account, it disappeared.

In fact, payments were made to Thomas’ account in Italy. The money was invested in another bar located on site. A new bar that also ended up bankrupt. An investigation was carried out when the Flémalle bar had just gone bankrupt. No trace of the slightest investment was found since the interested parties failed to provide proof.

The accountant dropped them

Since then, the suspects have been at the CPAS. They find themselves prosecuted in court for tax fraud, but also money laundering. The curatorship, but also the tax administration hope to recover the funds unduly collected. “I lost my mother at the end of 2017,” explained one of the defendants. “I was taking medication and drinking alcohol.”

According to their explanations, their accountant refused to continue working for them. One of them submitted a VAT request. “I filled in the boxes, but I’m not an accountant,” Yohan explained. “I made a mistake. We have made investments worth around 61,000 euros,” he continued. In reality, the interested parties were unable to provide any proof of the slightest investment. According to them, some of the documents remained in Italy. “When I saw the money arrive in the account, I thought it was the money the bank was lending us for our investment in Italy.”

For the prosecution, as well as the civil parties, there is not the slightest doubt that this error was intentional. The defendants’ lawyer stressed that her client had made mistakes during the previous quarter and the next. She pleaded for acquittal, work sentence or suspended sentence.

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2023-10-04 14:36:00

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday honored some of Belgium’s pride and personalities to thank the kingdom for its commitment to the F-16 coalition.

“What we love regarding Belgium“: in a clip with a humorous tone, once morest the backdrop of Technotronic’s “Pump up the jam”, beer, chocolate, the Red Devils and… the actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, world star of the film action which visited Ukraine in December 2022.

“The latest country to join the F-16 coalition which will give us the wings to win our freedom, in addition to generous support. Thank you, Belgium“, concludes the clip.

The Minister of Defense, Ludivine Dedonder, did not fail on Wednesday to highlight the short film to justify Belgian aid to Ukraine at war in the face of criticism from certain deputies who consider Belgian support insufficient.

Also read David Clarinval opens the door to sending F16s to Ukraine: “Belgium is lagging behind!”

In May, Belgium joined the F-16 coalition led by the Netherlands and Denmark to participate in the training of pilots and mechanics, but several parties want it to go further and give some of its fighter planes to Ukraine.

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2023-10-04 14:05:03

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday honored some of Belgium’s pride and personalities to thank the kingdom for its commitment to the F-16 coalition.

“What we love regarding Belgium”: in a clip with a humorous tone, once morest the backdrop of “Pump up the jam” by Technotronic, beer, chocolate, the Red Devils and… the actor Jean-Claude Van Damme parade, global action film star who visited Ukraine in December 2022.

“The latest country to join the F-16 coalition that will give us the wings to win our freedom, plus generous support. Thank you, Belgium,” concludes the clip.

Also read F-16: arms deal over Belgian military aid to Ukraine

The Minister of Defense, Ludivine Dedonder, did not fail on Wednesday to highlight the short film to justify Belgian aid to Ukraine at war in the face of criticism from certain deputies who consider Belgian support insufficient.

In May, Belgium joined the F-16 coalition led by the Netherlands and Denmark to participate in the training of pilots and mechanics, but several parties want it to go further and give some of its fighter planes to Ukraine.

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2023-10-04 15:14:38

Evergy is close to a deal with state regulators that would reduce electric rates in the Kansas City area and raise costs for the company’s other Kansas customers.

If the deal is approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission, Evergy’s Kansas Central territory — including Topeka, Manhattan and Wichita — would see rates increase by 4.05%, regarding $4.64 per month. Customers on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro would see a 4.75% decrease, or regarding $6.07.

The deal, announced late Fridayis a major departure from the rate increases Evergy requested: a 9.7% increase for Kansas Central and a 1.95% increase for the metro.

“This settlement is a very strong result for our customers,” Evergy’s president and CEO, David Campbell, said in a news release.

Evergy serves 1.6 million electric customers in Kansas and Missouri. It formed from the merger of Kansas City Power & Light, which supplied energy to the metro area, and Westar, which covered most of the rest of eastern and central Kansas, in 2018. Since then, it has been under a rate moratorium as a condition of the merger. This rate case, filed with the Kansas Corporation Commission in April, is the first in five years.

In its April filing, Evergy requested rate increases in both of its Kansas territories that would bring in a combined $218 million to the company.

For Kansas Central customers, Evergy’s request would have increased bills by $14.24. Kansas City-area customers would have seen bills jump by $3.47.

But staff of the Kansas Corporation Commission said Evergy’s request was too steep.

In a filing in August, the commission’s staff recommended only a 1.66% increase for Kansas Central and a 7.32% drop for the Kansas City metro. Under staff’s recommendation, Evergy would have seen an overall decline of $40 million.

The settlement deal filed with regulators last week lands in the middle.

The deal —supported by Evergy, the commission staff and numerous consumer, environmental and business groups — still has to be approved by the commission.

If approved, the rate changes in the deal would bring in another $41 million for Evergy, less than one-fifth of the revenue it hoped to bring in from customers.

In a filing in support of the negotiated deal, Justin Grady, who works in the utilities division of the Kansas Corporation Commission, said the compromise includes “just and reasonable rates, is in the public interest and is supported by substantial competent evidence in the record.”

Noting the wide variety of interest groups that signed onto the deal, Grady wrote, “the fact that these varied interests were able to collaborate and present a unanimous resolution … strongly indicates the public interest standard has been met.”

The three-member Kansas Corporation Commission is expected to hold a hearing regarding the deal Monday and decide whether to approve it by December.

While this rate case might soon be settled, another one is likely to follow soon.

Normally, utilities file general rate cases every few years, but Evergy requested permission to file another one next year to deal with the spike in demand expected from the Panasonic plant planned in DeSoto.

According to filings with the KCC, the Panasonic plant is expected to use twice as much energy as Evergy’s largest current commercial customer. The plant, which will produce batteries for electric vehicles, requires an amount of energy Evergy likened to a small city.

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