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Around fifty bags of cocaine were found in mid-December in the office of the Belgian Minister of Education, Caroline Désir. According to information from a local media outlet which revealed the affair, the drug did not belong to the minister herself but to a member of her cabinet, arrested before this strange discovery.
It’s a kind of remake of Coke and stock which shook the Belgian Ministry of Education. Belgian media Last hour revealed Thursday that around fifty bags of cocaine were discovered in mid-December in the office of Minister Caroline Désir, who has since confirmed the facts in a thread published on X (formerly Twitter).
(1/6) On the evening of Wednesday, December 15, I was informed that an assistant in charge of equipment and logistics at the office was under arrest as part of an investigation into drug trafficking. drug.
— CarolineDesir (@CarolineDesir) January 25, 2024
This drug would not in fact be that of the minister. Before getting their hands on this cocaine, the Belgian authorities arrested Mekki Van Haelen, a member of his cabinet as head of the Commissary, as pointed out The Parisian. A sum of 10,000 euros was also found with this individual, in a case which appears linked to cocaine trafficking.
A dismissal procedure for breach of trust
This man, son of a former Minister of Culture and MEP according to the DH, was placed in preventive detention. “On Thursday (14) December, a dismissal procedure for breach of trust was carried out in compliance with the regulations applicable to ministerial offices,” relates the Minister of Education, who specifies that “the bags were shipped by the investigators on the day” of their discovery. No other strange findings were brought to light by investigators.