IRAN - Belgian Olivier Vandecasteele Sentenced to 40 Years

Belgian Olivier Vandecasteele Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison and Flogging. Iranian forcing to get a prisoner exchange.
Iran’s judiciary announced that the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Belgian Olivier Vandecasteele to 40 years imprisonment and 74 lashes.
According to HRANA, quoting Mizan Online news agency, jailed Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele was sentenced to imprisonment, flogging and paying a fine.
Vandecasteele received 12.5 years for “spying on the Islamic Republic of Iran for foreign intelligence services,” 12.5 years for “collaboration with the USA, as a hostile country against Iran’s regime,” 12.5 years for “money laundering half a million dollars,” as well as forfeiting this money and its revenues, and 2.5 years for “smuggling half million dollars.” He was also sentenced to a one-million-dollar fine and 74 lashes.
Appealing, reportedly, is admissible within 20 days.
At odds with this verdict, on December 14, 2022, quoting Vandecasteele’s family, RTL News reported that he had received 28 years. Vandecasteele’s whereabouts are still unknown.
On the Vandecasteele case see also HoC 21/07/2022, 22/07/2022 and 03/01/2023.

https://www.en-hrana.org/belgian-olivier-vandecasteele-sentenced-to-40-years-in-prison-and-flogging/
https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2004994.html