Sonny Luypaert has more than 20 years of anti-fraud experience as a financial director and consultant in various domestic and foreign companies. She founded her own company, CORP-D Solutions, a private investigation firm specialising in corporate fraud She has also been president of the Belgian branch of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) since 2015,...
On Friday 6 December 2024, the new Private Investigation Act was published in the Belgian Official Gazette, replacing the Detective Act of 19 July 1991 and its implementing decrees, regulating the private investigation profession. Main drivers for this new law are the modernisation of the legal framework for private investigators and the adaptation to...
A previous article dealt with the Belgian Whistleblowing legislation (transposition of EU Directive 2019/1937). Within the European BRIGHT project, a self-assessment tool was built: SUSA -Speak Up Self Assessment-, a free online tool that allows you to perform an assessment of the quality of your reporting channels. SUSA was developed according to the ISO37002 guideline on whistleblower management systems and...
The Belgian legislator published the Whistleblowers Act on 15 December 2022 (transposition of EU Directive 2019/1937). The law aims to protect employees and other stakeholders who report serious wrongdoing within companies and public institutions, and applies to all companies with more than 50 employees and public authorities. The law protects anyone who, in a professional context,...