Belgian Prosecutors Seek to Lift Immunity of Lawmaker in Subsidy Fraud Probe

The request is part of an ongoing investigation, in which the Flemish deputy is suspected of having abused subsidies intended for her non-profit associations, reports Belga, stressing that for almost two years, the parliamentarian has been absent from the hemicycle where she sat within the Open-Vld, before resigning from it last April, for health reasons.

This request from the public prosecutor’s office will be studied as of October 10 by the prosecutions committee of the Flemish assembly, which will issue an opinion to the plenary assembly, the same source specifies. The Flemish deputies should not obstruct the lifting of the Moroccan’s immunity, it is warned.

For the record, in September, the Antwerp public prosecutor’s office informed that it had completed its final order targeting the elected official, and that part of her parliamentary allowances had been seized for months on a precautionary basis, as well as her real estate assets.