François Fornieri, boss of the pharmaceutical group Mithra, is suspected of having organized a massive share buyback in his company, just before the official announcement of a major contract. It appears that an amount of a million passed through the bank account of the wife of a dentist of his friends.
This is precisely where the former strongman of the Standard would have intervened, by an advance of funds, against a very high retribution. However, the loan of a sum of money at interest rates exceeding the maximum rate determined by law is illegal.
For its part, RTBF could not obtain a comment from the Liège justice.