2023-08-10 04:01:00
In an audit, the Finance Inspectorate estimates that the Libramont Fair must reimburse more than 930,000 euros to the Walloon Region. In the process, the government decided to freeze all payments and gave itself until October 30 to clear up the matter. The organizers of the Fair contest any irregularity. Article reserved for subscribers Head of the Investigations Department By Xavier Counasse Published on 08/10/2023 at 06:01 Reading time: 6 min
I only ask that: that we come and see how we manage the Walloon subsidy as a good father for years, “assured the Evening Natacha Perat, patroness of the Libramont Fair, last summer. At the time, the Walloon government had just discovered, following a note from the Finance Inspectorate, that a (large) part of the CEO’s remuneration was being paid to a Luxembourg company, in the form of consultancy fees .
The find goes badly on the Walloon side. If the company organizing the Fair, Libramont Cooperalia, still wishes to receive the copious annual subsidy granted by Wallonia, the government asks it to put an end immediately and without compensation to these payments to the Grand Duchy. This was done on July 26, 2022, assures Libramont Cooperalia.
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