A former bank manager in Bruges has been handed a three-year suspended sentence after being found guilty of plundering the accounts of rich customers to finance loans to people considered bad credit risks. Johan Verhaeghe, who managed a branch of Centea, took pity on people whose credit applications were refused by lending from his own pocket. When his secret “clients” defaulted, he was forced to use money from legitimate clients. In all, the would-be Robin Hood used up about €1 million of customer funds.