BNP Paribas Fortis will have to pay compensation to its former number 2, Filip Dierckx, ruled at the end of December the Dutch-speaking company court in Brussels, indicate Tuesday L’Echo and The time. The former executive claimed nearly 700,000 euros. Filip Dierckx left BNP Paribas Fortis through the back door in 2019 after spending 36 years there. The bank accused him of conflict of interest and refused to pay him compensation. He then sued BNP Paribas Fortis in order to collect them.
“The bank suspected Filip Dierckx of having extracted information internally in order to favor the social secretariat SDWorx, of which he chaired the board of directors. The judges did not follow this path and considered that the banker did not had committed no fault”, Explain L’Echo.
“I am very satisfied with this judgment and I never doubted that this procedure would confirm that I was not at fault”, Filip Dierckx told the business daily. “I’m glad the court took my point of view. I have always said that I had never committed any ethical or legal fault, which the court confirms.”