The former managing director of the insurance fund Socialist disease From Voorzorg Limburg, Tony Coonen was sentenced to four years suspended prison sentence, 8,000 euros fine, a management ban for 10 years and a forfeiture of his rights for five years by the court Criminal Court in Hasselt convicted on Friday. A building plot, located in Hasselt and an amount of 608,807 euros were also confiscated.

The lawsuit was about real estate transactions fraudulent, active and passive corruption, conflicts of interest, fictitious contracts, misappropriation of social assets and practices of money laundering. The court established that Tony Coonen and the treasurer, directors of the De Voorzorg group, had for several years awarded contracts by concealing that they would receive benefits personnel as a result of these assignments. Contracts and invoices have been established to disguise the fact that they were receiving these benefits in exchange for their intervention in the award of contracts.

The court also pronounced an ACQUITTAL for certain elements, in particular for part of the embezzlement of social assets. The court also referred to leadership. Questionable Tony Coonen, who was nicknamed “Tony the Trickster” during the trial.