LANDGRAAF - Lawyer Serge Weening has engaged a Belgian lawyer to assist his client Eric van den B.. The latter will demand Van den B.'s release today at the court chambers in Verviers.
Dark clouds also hang over the head of the former operator of hotel-restaurant Overste Hof in Landgraaf in the Netherlands. Van den B. went personally bankrupt in 2004 and the same happened to his two investment companies. The supervisory judge has filed charges against Van den B. According to Judge Groen, he is guilty of, among other things, forgery, perjury, fraudulent bank breakage and acting as a professional investor when he does not have the required documents to do so.

According to Pieter Scholtes, the trustee in the bankruptcies, Van den Bergh has been unable to clarify how he invested the 2.4 million euros that clients had entrusted to him. Scholtes: "With the settlement of the bankruptcies and the search for the money flows, I can only proceed when there is clarity about a possible criminal investigation."

The same goes for the missing kitchen inventory of the Overste Hof with which Van den Bergh also failed last year. That had a value of at least 20,000 euros, according to the trustee.