From the very beginning of the investigation, we assist our clients in their defence against allegations of tax fraud, money-laundering, corruption, financial crimes, and other types of offenses. We pride ourselves on our longstanding experience of more than 20 years in these types of matters.

Since over twenty years, Belgian criminal law can hold companies liable for certain facts. Our clients are usually companies and their managers and executives. We also assist natural persons and government bodies when they seek our assistance in dealing with white-collar crime matters.

Criminal law and criminal punishment are inherently linked to each other. But the legal rules in other sectors that are enforced through alternative mechanisms and procedures can lead to administrative sanctions also. In these procedures, the principles of criminal law and criminal procedural law are important. We have experience in both conventional criminal proceedings and administrative proceedings in which criminal-law-based sanctions can be imposed.

We assist clients in criminal prosecution for falsification of documents, money-laundering, abuse of company property, market manipulation and insider trading, tax and social security fraud, corruption, bankruptcy offences, abuse of trust, embezzlement, IT crimes, abuse of insider information, violations of company law, customs and excise offenses, workplace accidents, and subsidy offences.

Some examples of our work in criminal defence include: 

  • assisting a client in a criminal investigation into corruption in the context of property development of industrial estates (or business parks) and also concerning tax fraud;
  • assisting a company and one of its directors in an investigation and prosecution for falsification of documents  and money-laundering based on an underlying tax felony;
  • assisting a former CEO of a company active in the film industry in an investigation into facts of embezzlement by a former director;
  • assisting a director of a real estate group in criminal prosecution for facts of falsification of documents, money-laundering, and material misrepresentation of purchase price.