Part 2: Fraud? What fraud? How Belgium makes cases disappear.

For over a year, formal suspected fraud complaints were sent to SPF Finance, SPF Emploi, ONSS, OLAF, EPPO, the European Commission, the European Court of Auditors — backed by legal documents, financial records, and whistleblower evidence.

The result? Silence. Files closed without investigation. Jurisdiction ping-pong.

And at the top of it all, the Belgian Federal Public Service Finance — the authority responsible for fraud oversight, represented as an example by Filip Van de Velde, Chair of the Management Committee — who earned over €1 million in public salary in the past five years — never responded to a single one of our formal questions.

This is not oversight failure. It’s institutional indifference.

Public money is being drained, and those paid to defend it are doing nothing. This isn’t just Belgium’s problem. It’s Europe’s problem.

We’re putting the evidence on the record — because it’s time someone did.

Part 1: Brussels – how EU funds disappear behind the walls of ‘Non-Profits’

Meet Jan van Graabgold (a fictionalized name used for editorial and illustrative purposes only) — a composite figure inspired by publicly documented patterns observed in multiple Brussels-based AISBLs receiving EU funding.

In one such case, an executive director invoiced €21,352 per month through his private company in 2022 — absorbing nearly 45% of the organisation’s total human resources budget. Meanwhile, staff earned as little as €2,111 gross. According to public records and statute modifications, the role of Executive Director was no longer assigned to a person directly. Instead, it was assigned to a private company — the personal business of that same person who had been holding the role for years..

It’s a legal manoeuvre with massive implications — not just for transparency, but for every EU taxpayer funding it.