The new transaction between the federal prosecutor’s office and the carrier Roland Jost, the second largest in the country, has been approved, reports L’Echo on Tuesday. This is the end of this emblematic case of social dumping.
After having, last October, rejected a first transaction agreement between the road transport entrepreneur Roland Jost and the federal prosecutor’s office, the court of first instance of Liège gave its approval, this Monday, to the second.
After this approval, Roland Jost is therefore sentenced to an 18-month suspended prison sentence, as well as a fine of 4.8 million euros, including 200,000 euros firm. If Mr. Jost were to reoffend within the next three years, he will have to pay 4.6 million euros. The first agreement, which provided for a three-year suspended prison sentence, had been rejected by a first judge on the grounds that no fine was provided for.
This is therefore the end of the Jost affair, born in 2017, in the wake of a wave of checks in the Belgian transport sector. The entrepreneur had spent some time in detention and 240 of his trucks had been seized by the courts.
At the beginning of 2022, Jost Group, Roland Jost’s company, had compromised with the prosecution for the payment of 30 million euros, after having hired a thousand workers from Eastern countries via a Romanian “mailbox” company. , to the detriment of the ONSS.