A lawyer cleared of defrauding the heirs to Belgium's richest family said on Wednesday she would seek compensation from them in the Belgian courts for the damage she says they inflicted on her in 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 to the detriment of the heirs to the world's largest brewer, Anheuser Busch InBev.
Chorfi received AB inBev stock as part of her legal fees for work carried out for the Geneva-based brothers, Patrice and Alexis Bailo de Spoelberch. But they disagreed over the payment to her and accused her of being behind the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of shares.
