The Belgian Public Prosecution Service will prosecute the Dutch criminal lawyer CEM Polat because he is suspected of violating his professional secrecy. According to the judiciary, he has passed on confidential information from criminal records to members of heavy Belgian drug cartels. That reports De Telegraaf Tuesday.
The name of Polat appeared in a large -scale Belgian study into a criminal organization that would be responsible for the smuggling of no less than 3,000 kilos of cocaine. Justice regards him as a link between the legal circuit and large Belgian drug gangs.
The suspicions are based on encrypted PGP messages that Polat would have exchanged with a client and conversations between criminals about the lawyer. Among other things, those messages would show that he leaked confidential information to Flor Bressers, a Fleming who is known as one of the largest cocaine smugglers in Belgium.
Polat, who acts as a lawyer of former professional footballer Quincy Promes (who was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for serious abuse and drug trafficking), will soon have to answer for the Belgian court. If he is found guilty, he risks an unconditional prison sentence.