Overview
- An investigating judge issued the formal charge on October 16, a development disclosed now by Belgian media including Le Soir.
- Authorities are scrutinizing about €200,000 in lottery purchases and roughly €800,000 in deposits over a ten-year period.
- Police searched two of Reynders’ properties and questioned him in December after alerts from the financial intelligence unit CTIF and the National Lottery.
- Reynders’ wife, a judge in Liège, has been questioned twice by investigators but has not been charged.
- The probe began three days after Reynders left his role as European Commissioner, when he still had immunity, and the judicial investigation remains active.