Foreign intelligence services in Belgium

SALÉ - On 27 July, Abdelkader Belliraj was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in Salé. The Moroccan judicial authorities found that Belliraj had committed six murders in Belgium, smuggled weapons into Morocco, laundered money, and led a terrorist network.

BRUSSELS - Belgium is a magnet for foreign intelligence services. The mere presence of the European institutions and NATO on Belgian soil attracts a large number of spies. European leaders are bugged, and secret NATO files are passed on to the enemy. But that is not all. Foreign spies are infiltrating companies and universities to gather technological know-how. Hard drives packed with sensitive information are disappearing without trace from leading Belgian companies.

NIVELLES - 17 Raids between 1982 and 1985, 28 dead, more than 40 injured, barely 175,000 euros in loot and no one convicted. The Nivelles Gang is the largest unresolved judicial file in Belgium. Hilde Geens did what someone rarely does: she read the judicial files about the Nivelles Gang and discovered that she was being deceived.