Mons: entrepreneur misuses wife's fuel card to buy cocaine, €50,000 loss
A man accused of using the professional fuel card from his spouse's company to pay for drug purchases. The loss amounts to nearly €50,000 over eighteen months.
Mons: entrepreneur misuses wife's fuel card to buy cocaine, €50,000 loss
The criminal court of Mons examined a breach of trust case in which a man married to a company director allegedly used a professional payment method to finance his drug dependency. The financial loss to the family business amounts to approximately €50,000.
For around twenty years, the defendant has been addicted to drugs. To obtain cocaine, he devised a method as crude as it was profitable: he would exchange full tanks of petrol paid for via his wife's company fuel card for bags of white powder. Four doses of cocaine were obtained in exchange for approximately €400 of fuel.
Two accomplices living in the Mons area also appeared in court. One, residing in Flénu, is said to have made use of the card before being imprisoned for other offences. The second is said to have subsequently continued the scheme. It was the surge in expenses recorded on the professional account that ultimately alerted those around him.
The public prosecutor considers that only the company director's husband should be held responsible for breach of trust. Regarding the two other accused parties, charges of computer fraud were not upheld due to insufficient evidence. The prosecution sought a sentence of two years' imprisonment with probationary suspension against the main defendant.
Defence counsel welcomed this position. One of them argued for lenient treatment for his client whilst stressing that responsibility should not rest solely on his shoulders. The proceedings were marked by tensions between the defendants, with each one accusing the other of lying. The judge presiding over the hearing had to call the court to order to allow proceedings to continue.
Source: DHNET
Source: DHnet