YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS. Belgian “Laatste Nieuws” daily has referred to the Azerbaijani-linked corruption scandal in an article headlined “20 Belgian organizations received funds from the Azerbaijani regime”.

ARMENPRESS reports the article notes that over 20 Belgian organizations, including “Solve” and “Proximus” received money from Azerbaijan during 2012-2014 with the help of mediators. The total amount of the deals stood at 2.1 billion Euros.

Particularly, BICS 2 international courier service received over 173 million Euros from LCM Alliance LLP, which is one of the 4 suspicious British companies, in May 2013. The mentioned British company was most probably opened for money laundering.  

BICS Company has announced that is a one-time payment by an Iranian customer for telecommunication services. But the Belgian daily writes that the money transfer system that was used in this particular case is more suitable for suspicious financial flows.

The newspaper also informs that numerous European politicians use the accounts of the mentioned 4 companies who receive money from Azerbaijan to present their interests at the Council of Europe Human Rights Commission.