{"id":5567,"date":"2026-03-10T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/5567\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:35:08","slug":"news-antwerp-prosecutor-warns-that-belgium-is-becoming-a-state-with-a-lot-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/5567\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Antwerp prosecutor warns that Belgium is \u2018becoming a state with a lot of corruption\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>BELGIUM is \u201cbecoming a state with a lot of corruption\u201d due to issues over drug trafficking, a prominent Antwerp prosecutor has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Guido Vermeiren, prosecutor general for Antwerp and Limburg, spoke alongside Bart Willocx, president of the Antwerp Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773146108_635_phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1034874810\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent BELGIUM is \u201cbecoming a state with a lot of corruption\u201d due to issues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,7,1288,4082],"class_list":{"0":"post-5567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-antwerp","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-corruption","11":"tag-drug-trafficking"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116204911059360084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}