The Financial Inspectorate noted a series of “non-compliant” expenses on the part of the company organizing the agricultural fair, subsidized by Wallonia. To avoid the legal route, the two parties (discreetly) reached an amicable agreement.
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By Xavier CounassePublished on 11/20/2024 at 06:00
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CThis is what we call settling a matter… discreetly. The Walloon Region and the Libramont Cooperalia company – organizer of the Fair of the same name – recently signed a sort of peace of the brave, we learned The evening. An agreement which definitively buries the financial dispute which has opposed them since 2022.
It all started with an initial controversy surrounding the remuneration of the CEO of Libramont Cooperalia, Natacha Perat, paid via a company… in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Which goes badly, on the Walloon side, when we know that the Region grants an annual subsidy of 852,800 euros to the Fair, and that it undertakes to rent stands each year for a minimum amount of 493,862 euros.
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