A fugitive Belgian magistrate has been captured by French police in a Paris hotel and faces a court hearing on Wednesday over extradition.
The runaway Belgian judge was flagged on a European arrest warrant after fleeing the country rather than face a five-year jail sentence issued in 2012 on corruption charges, Europe 1 radio reported.
'Extortion and money-laundering'
"A Belgian national, a magistrate at the Belgian bar, has been arrested in Paris and placed in judicial detention on the basis of two European arrest warrants issued by the Belgian authorities," RTL reported a judicial source telling French news agency AFP.
The source said that the man will be put before a Paris extradition court on Wednesday, charged with "fraud... committed in his capacity as a magistrate" and "extortion and money-laundering."
A spokesperson for the Belgian College of Courts did not immediately respond when approached by The Brussels Times for comment.
