Joeri Cools, a 53-year-old former taxi driver from Ghent, reportedly inherited a property valued at about €500,000 from Annie, a woman who used his taxi regularly for 18 years. Annie, who lived in Brussels and travelled weekly to Ghent, had recorded the bequest in her will in 2011. She died in June 2025 at the age of 81 and had spent her final years in a nursing home.

According to the account, Annie left an apartment to each of three friends and the property to Cools. A calculation cited in the account put the inheritance tax at €358,750; if Cools sells the property, he would have about €140,000 remaining. He last spoke with Annie in 2021 and stopped working as a taxi driver two years later.