Belgian Idiocy and a Travesty of Justice

Finally, about 90% into the book, I hear the words that first crossed my mind - the Mossad - as in, why didn't Belgium just not hire the Mossad to bump off these Italian *ds!

Stole between $100m and $400m worth of people well-gotten-loot and?

The mastermind : 10 years and 1m Euro fine
the other three *ds : 5 years each and 5,000 Euro fine each

Really? That's how Belgian justice works? *ds! How is the ordinary person supposed to feel about this? To be fair, these laws were probably created when Belgium was ruled by a monarchy. You don't expect the population to be that dumb.