Marc Crochet, Director General of Caritas, resigned last week, after spending months on sick leave.
Following the arrest of eight people, including six in Bulgaria, last week as part of the ongoing fraud investigation by the Luxembourg judicial authorities, Crochet resigned, Reporter said on Monday evening.
Crochet left his post on 20 January. He had been head of the Caritas Foundation since February 2022, and had been on sick leave since July 2024, when the scandal broke.
Finance director still under house arrest
Two other managers – the Director of Operations and Human Resources Director – have been dismissed since the end of last year, the news site revealed, adding that the director of operations had contested the decision.
The fate of the financial director at the heart of the investigation, currently on sick leave, has not yet been decided. She is currently under house arrest under court order – believed to be behind transfers totalling €60 million to accounts in Spain. Denying all allegations, she describes herself as the victim of “false president fraud”.
The Caritas scandal led to the creation of a new structure, ASBL Hëllef um Terrain (HUT), to take over the social and field activities of Caritas in Luxembourg. Philippe Schrantz, former Director of the Grand-Ducal Police, has been appointed to the post of General Director of the association with effect from 1 March 2025.
The Caritas Foundation still exists, however, it is financially drained in the wake of the scandal, and faces heavy debts.
(This article was first published on Virgule. Translation by Tracy Heindrichs.)