Looks like the cult’s org in Belgium was formally charged with fraud.  Google translation, with my attempts to clean it up:

On 11 April and the following days, investigators [raided] the Brussels headquarters of the Church of Scientology, [and] police [took] the hardware and individual records of members of the association. The [org has been] sealed since [to] prohibit access to offices of the Church. The judicial authorities in Brussels acted following a complaint from Actiris, the Brussels body responsible for placement of job seekers. At this stage of the investigation, the investigating magistrate Michel Claise has accused the Church of Scientology [of] fraud. [The] sect [is] suspected of having recruited members by promising a bogus employment contract. The classified ads placed by Scientology [are] tantamount to an offer of paid employment.

In fact, persons [recruited] by the association sign a membership contract and not an employment contract. The Church of Scientology is already the subject of a criminal investigation opened in 1997. In this case, it is charged, as a legal person, as a criminal [?]. It is also question[ed if there was an] infringement of the law on the protection of privacy and illegal practice of medicine. The investigation is on the verge of ending. The two cases could be attached to a possible referral Correctional during the next judicial year.

Here’s the original moonspeak article.

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