The messages, seen by EUobserver and published here in full, now form evidence in a Belgian police investigation into Reynders on money-laundering charges, which paints them in a potentially criminal light.
Leaked WhatsApp messages from 2019 between a then-director of State Security and Didier Reynders raise questions. The two discussed a criminal investigation underway at the time against the then-Deputy Prime Minister and candidate for European Commissioner, during which the director proposed a 'counterattack' to Reynders.