The OGBL emphasised on Thursday that employees must not become victims of the financial misconduct at Caritas.
Representing the roughly 500 Caritas staff, the OGBL has requested urgent meetings with Prime Minister Luc Frieden and the Caritas administrative board. Additionally, the union will hold an information meeting for affected employees on Friday at its premises in Esch-sur-Alzette.
Caritas management has stated that the NGO’s reserves will only cover ongoing costs for the next two months, leaving the future uncertain. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Luc Frieden made it clear that the state would not pay “a single euro” to Caritas. The OGBL insists that employees should not be left in uncertainty any longer.
Last week Friday, news broke that the Caritas Foundation was the victim of a significant internal embezzlement involving a staggering €60 million that never reached its intended purposes.
The Director General of the Caritas Foundation, Marc Crochet, has filed a criminal complaint for misappropriation of funds, according to a statement issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday evening. An investigation is underway, and only a few details have emerged so far.
On Monday evening, the public prosecutor’s office announced a person had now turned themselves in to the judiciary police as a result of the investigation into the case. The individual was consequently arrested by order of the investigating judge.
The investigation remains ongoing in order to clarify how 61 million euros were transferred from Caritas to a Spanish bank without reaching the charity’s cooperative partners.
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