Benoit de Bonvoisin
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Benoît Baron de Bonvoisin (born March 14, 1939) is a Belgian businessman. He is the grandson of Alexandre Galopin, who was a director of the Société Générale de Belgique and assassinated in 1944 by Nazi collaborators [1]. His father was a chairman of the Generale Bank.
De Bonvoisin was the owner of the Cidep company, which published the magazine Nouvelle Europe Magazine.
Although convicted to one-year imprisonment in 1986 for his connection to the bankruptcy of the Boomse Metaalwerken, de Bonvoisin was cleared of this crime in May 2000. In 1996, de Bonvoisin would be tried for fraud, involving his Cidep and PDG companies. In the case of Cidep he was cleared, the case PDG was annulled.
De Bonvoisin is pejoratively nicknamed the "Black Baron," for alleged connections to the Nijvel Gang, CCC and Gladio, and the financing of "fascist and militant groups." The term was first coined by Albert Raes, former head of the Belgian State Security Service.
He was a close friend of Paul Vanden Boeynants, former Prime Minister of Belgium.
