The number of denunciations to the Ctif has increased by 50% since 2020, which was a record year. At the same time, the number of files sent to justice is increasing, as is the cumulative amount of suspected fraud: +42% in one year to 2.336 billion euros, while, here too, 2020 was unprecedented. Finally, from 2019 to 2021, the number of files transmitted related to organized crime almost doubled, for amounts almost quadrupled.
If the establishment in Belgium of British payment organizations following Brexit and a specific case, that of the alleged scam of Avrox masks, are important factors in the explosion of these figures, they cannot explain it. 100%. It turns out, notes the Ctif, that money laundering continues to grow in Belgium, following the controlled cutting of the port of Antwerp by major criminal networks, making Belgium one of the of the main entry points for cocaine trafficking in Europe.
The Ctif also notes, in the wake of justice and the police, the progression of independent money laundering networks working hand in hand with drug traffickers, who are responsible for the entire chain of taking charge of the money dirty, from its receipt to its reintegration into the real economy.