Carolorégienne affair

In October 2006, mayor Jacques Van Gompel of the PS was jailed on fraud and forgery charges.

The MR resigned from the coalition just before the 2007 general election, citing official charges of corruption leveled against a PS alderman in Charleroi.

[1] After the 2007 general election, the PS placed the Charleroi local party section under the supervision of Paul Magnette, with the city executive resigning.

Mayor Casaert was charged with fraud on 18 June 2007, but only stepped down after a new city executive had been formed.

In April 2010, the director of technical services of Charleroi, Henri Stassens, was convicted in court of fraud and corruption.