The EU Anti-Fraud Office is also investigating the cooperatives of Soumahoro's wife and mother-in-law.

At the end of October 2023, prosecutor Giuseppe De Falco informed Olaf, the European Anti-Fraud Office, of the investigation into fraud in public supplies, fraudulent bankruptcy of assets and self-laundering in the management of Karibu, Consorzio Aid and Jambo Africa. cooperatives of Liliane Murekatete and Marie Thérèse Mukamitsindo, wife and mother-in-law of MP Aboubakar Soumahoro – without any connection with the affair. The investigation concerns the management of reception centers, relations with the Prefecture and overpopulation problems. The preliminary hearing before the Latino magistrate will take place on March 1, while the trial for possible tax offenses has already begun. The Brussels Anti-Fraud Office, informed of the prosecutor's activity, opened its own investigation and carried out inspections at the company's headquarters between November 22 and 24. The hypothesis is that allocations from the European Social Fund were used inappropriately for integration and social inclusion projects aimed at reception center guests. The Financial Police worked with their European counterparts, helping them identify documents useful to investigators. “The activity also allowed us to identify a binder registered in the name of Marie-Terese Brussels, inside which documents of operational interest for the purposes of this investigative activity were found,” we can say. read in the inspection report.

Properties in Brussels

Olaf's investigation concerns certain rental contracts relating to real estate in Brussels and attributable to the wife and mother-in-law of the Italian MP. The first is located at 55 rue Hennin, Ixelles district, which Murekatete rented to his mother Mukamitsindo in 2018 for 1,000 euros per month. The second, still in the same building, Murekatete rents it to the Karibu cooperative managed by his mother for 1,300 euros per month. In 2019, the mother offered to buy the property for 95,000 euros. According to daily event there is also a third property, in the same area but on rue Lens, which refers to a company called Ggg Real Estate. The investigation file also includes the creation of Karibu Belgium, a company founded in 2016 by Murekatete, his brother Michael, his partner and two other people. The truth reports that the status of Karibu Asbl, founded at the end of 2018 by Mukamitsindo with other people from different professions, has also been found.

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