2023-06-26 08:06:00
Revelations from our colleagues at SudInfo, this Monday, highlight the enormous pressure that the current Minister-President of the Walloon Region, Elio Di Rupo, put on the political world in 2019. We are then at the heart of the Nethys affair, and the sale of its subsidiaries (VOO, Elicio and WIN). Elio Di Rupo wanted at all costs to prevent these subsidiaries from falling into the hands of François Fornieri (and Stéphane Moreau indirectly), via his companies Ardentia and Ardentia Tech. The Walloon Premier therefore undertook major maneuvers, resumed by SudInfo, which got its hands on certain court documents.
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It influences “The company of the year”
Elio Di Rupo was to deliver the Business of the Year award in person in 2019. He didn’t want it to be John Cockerill. The company was involved in the takeover of Elicio alongside François Fornieri and Stéphane Moreau. And the jury would have listened to it, while the Seresian company was the favourite.
Refusal of a loan
It was still on John Cockerill that Di Rupo put pressure a little later, preventing the company from receiving a bridging loan (a kind of bridge loan) to enable it to absorb a large delay in payment. The SRIW (today Wallonie Entreprendre) would have refused him this loan, which should have been granted.
Mithra threatened
The big bosses Marc Coucke (then chairman of the board of directors of Mithra) and Gaetan Servais (ex Meusinvest) received explicit messages from Elio Di Rupo to put pressure on the company of François Fornieri, always with the aim of cancel the takeover of Nethys subsidiaries. Extraordinary board of directors, threat of resale of shares: the pressure is enormous.
These multiple pressures, also at the level of the media, ended up working. On October 23, 2019, François Fornieri renounces “by himself” the famous takeover…
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