2023-10-03 11:45:00
Their names are Gregory, Sophie, Lionel, Edwin. Everyone was duped by Stéphane Coszack, alias “the number one Walloon crook”. Employed to work within the company Hercos Group, the four people quickly became disillusioned when they did not see the salary due arrive in their bank account. Like so many other victims before them.
Same behavior once more and once more
It was in 2005 that the terrible legal journey of the forty-year-old began. At the time, Stéphane Coszack was tried for having set up a scam around Dani Lary, this illusionist magician forgotten today, but very well known at the time for his appearances at Patrick Sébastien’s greatest Cabaret in the World. Dani Lari had to perform in Belgium and Stéphane Coszack had put several hundred tickets on pre-sale. Fake notes, let’s be clear. The crook was convicted on January 19, 2005 in Brussels, then on November 22, 2006 in Charleroi, for other acts.
Sophie recounts her eight days at Hercos, Stéphane Coszack’s company: “I was so happy to get a permanent contract, I felt humiliated”
In November 2017, by default, the crook received three years in prison and was ordered to pay the late wages of half a dozen employees. In 2021, the criminal court imposed another 30-month prison sentence on him. Stéphane Coszack does everything: disco, graphic design, flyer printing, etc. This Monday morning, the four victims hoped to at least see the crook facing the Charleroi criminal court. In vain…
The labor prosecutor accuses Stéphane Coszack of remuneration problems, the absence of work regulations and insurance law and a problem of remuneration of vacation pay, among others. On November 19, 2019, a surprise visit to the company at Place de la Digue in Charleroi to check the working conditions and remuneration of employees allowed investigators to come across Stéphane. “Right away, the latter acknowledges being late with certain salaries for the months of September and October. He undertakes to regularize the situation by November 22 and undertakes to submit the missing documents by December 16. Summoned for hearing on this date, he never showed up,” says the labor hearing by way of introduction. Subsequently, the company’s employees filed a complaint, including Grégory the web designer, who only received a deposit.
A hookah bar
Since then, Stéphane Coszack has continued his merry-go-round. Latest development: the opening of a shisha bar where social security contributions are unpaid by more than 5,300 euros, without forgetting the absence of legal insurance and around ten undeclared workers. For the workplace auditor, this is a sign that the scammer has not yet understood and probably risks never questioning his behavior. So what to do? Request the maximum possible sentence (3 years) once morest the man now on provisional release awaiting an electronic bracelet since last April. “As long as he is not behind bars, he will not respect Belgian laws and will have no respect for workers,” adds the labor auditor. As for the victims of Stéphane Coszack, we have little illusion regarding the possibility of seeing the money owed once more one day.
Judgment for November 6.
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