ING bank probed for role in Didier Reynders money laundering case

Published on 20/08/2025 - 15:09 GMT+2

ING Belgium has travel nether investigation for its domiciled successful nan money laundering lawsuit that involves erstwhile European Commissioner Didier Reynders, Belgian newspaper Le Soir reports.

The slope is being probed by nan Brussels prosecutor's agency for imaginable acts of "influence peddling".

Last December, nan charismatic started investigating erstwhile EU Justice Commissioner Reynders for an alleged believe involving purchasing aggregate lottery tickets done nan National Lottery complete respective years, an organisation which he was successful complaint of arsenic a Belgian finance curate betwixt 2007 and 2011.

It is alleged that Reynders deposited nan resulting - and now-laundered -profits into his individual account.

According to nan report, nan erstwhile Commissioner deposited immoderate €700,000 successful rate connected his ING relationship betwixt 2008 and 2018. The slope did not inquire him questions until 2018, and only notified nan Financial Intelligence Processing Unit successful 2023. 

Under Belgian law, banks person nan responsibility to study suspicious transactions. 

Reynders antecedently denied the allegations, saying nan costs were from his backstage estate.  

The investigation into ING Belgium came aft nan Belgian National Bank submitted its inspection study to nan authorities. 

Current ING Belgium CEO, Peter Adams, and his predecessor, Erik Van Den Eynden, person already been summoned for questioning successful nan case.

A spokesperson for ING Belgium told Euronews that it cannot remark connected “individual cases.”

“We return our domiciled arsenic guardian of nan financial strategy very seriously. We comply pinch each applicable rules and regulations,” nan spokesperson said.

The prosecutor's agency did not reply to a petition for comment.