Robert Beijer, a former Belgian policeman whose name comes up regularly in the case of the Killers of Brabant, was arrested in Thailand on January 18. While a rogatory commission was being conducted there by Belgian investigators in the context of the said file, the Thai authorities realized that Robert Beijer had been illegally residing in their territory for twenty years. They therefore arrested him with a view to deporting him.
Belgian investigators have seized several documents in Beijer’s home, which must now be analyzed. According to Robert Beijer’s lawyer, Me Pierre Chomé, the Belgian consulate in Thailand was to issue him a temporary passport so that he could return to Belgium, but the issuance of the document was delayed. In the meantime, his client has been released and his passport should be returned to him on Monday or Tuesday.
Beijer will stay with family members
He will then have to take a plane to Belgium, where he will stay with members of his family. He will then be summoned by the investigating judge in charge of the investigation into the Brabant Killings in order to be heard, according to Me Chomé.
In our Saturday edition, we tell you about the good life that Robert Beijer led in Thailand, in the city of Pattaya. He owns several properties there worth more than 5 million euros.
Suspected of having been one of the authors of the Brabant Killings, Robert Beijer has never been charged and has always denied being involved. In 1995, this former policeman was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the murder of an Antwerp diamond merchant.