The judicial police carried out six searches this Wednesday. Rights which are part of an investigation into potential fraud in public subsidies, for an amount of nearly three million euros. Four people were deprived of their freedom to be heard.
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By Joël MatrichePublished on 09/10/2024 at 6:09 p.m.
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M.Wednesday morning, agents of the federal judicial police of Liège arrived at the Brussels headquarters of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, RTL learned and The evening. They left around 5 p.m. with documents. The headquarters of the youth movement Les Faucons Rouges, in Huy, was also searched. As well as the homes of several suspects.
Carried out by the federal judicial police of Liège, these functions – confirmed in Soirée by the Liège public prosecutor’s office – are part of an investigation opened this year by judge Frédéric Frenay: the youth movement is suspected of having falsified documents to unduly receive subsidies from the FWB. According to our information, suspicions currently relate to an amount of 200,000 euros which, each year between 2009 and 2023 (or 2024), would have been wrongly attributed to the Red Falcons. In total, just under three million euros.
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