Per the NGF, historian Nico Wouters discovered that SNCB was bribed to cooperate with the Nazis in facilitating the deportations. The Belgian state is also being held responsible as a shareholder in the SNCB. The NGF is aiming for both financial compensation and an acknowledgement of the Belgian state’s alleged complicity and collaboration. There have reportedly been talks held between the NGF, the SNCB, and the Belgian government, so far to no avail. Then-Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt formally apologised for and acknowledged the role that the Belgian state played in carrying out the Final Solution in 2007.