text: Belgian police arrest detective in Dutroux affair . Geert de Clercq NEUFCHATEAU , Belgium 1996-08-25 Investigators arrested a senior police detective on Sunday in connection with their inquiries into Belgium 's child sex scandal , Public Prosecutor Michel Bourlet said . " Georges Zicot was arrested and will be charged with truck theft , insurance fraud and document forgery , " Bourlet told a news conference . He said there had been searches at three sites on Sunday , including one at the Charleroi judicial police headquarters where Zicot worked . Zicot , 45 , is a specialist in tackling vehicle theft . Belgian media reported that he had been questioned twice in the past two years about thefts but released both times . He was promoted to chief detective earlier this year . Bourlet said two other people had also been arrested . One was Gerard Pignon , the owner of a warehouse where stolen vehicles were allegedly stored . The other was insurer Thierry Dehaan . Bourlet said the investigation into the vehicle theft ring would be added to the inquiry into the paedophile sex scandal in which five other people have already been arrested . He said the connection was through Bernard Weinstein , an accomplice of convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux -- the central figure in the paedophile scandal that has sent shockwaves across Europe . Weinstein was found dead last weekend alongside the bodies of eight-year-olds Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo in a house belonging to Detroux , who said they starved to death earlier this year , nine months after being abducted in June 1995 . Two other girls have been rescued and police are hunting for at least two more who Dutroux has admitted kidnapping a year ago . " Dutroux has admitted killing Weinstein after a disagreement between the accomplices in an affair of truck theft , " Bourlet said . Another four people were also questioned at the weekend but had not been detained , Bourlet added . Anne Thily , public prosecutor in the eastern city of Liege where Julie and Melissa lived , said this was a major case involving some 50 investigators -- including two from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .