2024-01-26 10:49:00
In addition to Fadila Laanan’s son, seven other suspects were made available to an investigating judge in the case revealed this Thursday evening by the DH. For the record, 50 packets of cocaine were found in December at Caroline Désir’s office where Mekki Vanhaelen worked as a bursar, and 10,000 euros were found at his private home. The minister was sitting on the Ixelles municipal council when the news was published in the DH.
50 packets of cocaine seized from Désir cabinet: an individual sent to Haren prison
The investigating judge charged the eight suspects with the sale and possession of drugs in association. Two of them were released on conditions. The other six were placed under arrest warrant. Their preventive detention was confirmed by the chamber of counsel.
”The Brussels public prosecutor’s office is able to confirm that narcotics were found in the office of the French-speaking Minister of Education in December 2023. A colleague from the office was made available to an investigating judge , who charged him with the sale and possession of narcotics, and placed him under arrest warrant. In this case, a total of 8 suspects were made available to the investigating judge,” indicates the Brussels public prosecutor’s office in a press release.
”On Wednesday, December 15 evening, the Minister of Education was informed that an assistant in charge of materials and logistics at the cabinet was under arrest as part of an investigation into drug trafficking. drug,” the cabinet said in a statement. The next day, a dismissal procedure for breach of trust was launched.
”The same day, a search of his office was carried out by us to check whether any criminal items were there. Around fifty sachets containing white powder were discovered,” according to this press release. The firm then contacted a lawyer to open a collaboration with the investigating judge in charge of the investigation. “By mutual agreement with the investigators, the chief of staff opened the doors of the collaborator’s office and all the premises to which he had access from Friday, December 17. The bags were taken by investigators the same day. They discovered nothing else and have not wished to hear from any other member of the cabinet since.”
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