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NEWS: Jailed Belgian lawyer cleared of laundering family shares in AB InBev to seek compensation

By Marine Strauss

A Belgian lawyer who was acquitted of money-laundering and falsifying documents in a case involving Belgium’s richest family will seek compensation in Belgian courts for damages she suffered after almost a decade of legal proceedings.

Fara Chorfi, 61, was sentenced to 30 months in 2019 by a Geneva court, half of which was suspended, for money laundering and stock fraud targeting heirs to the world’s largest brewer Anheuser Busch InBev.

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