{"id":4258,"date":"2024-06-30T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lama-fortune.com\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2025-02-13T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T11:39:20","slug":"oswald-van-damme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/oswald-van-damme\/","title":{"rendered":"Oswald Van Damme: Pioneer of Technical Inspection Centers with 43 Million Euros in Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oswald Van Damme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oswald Van Damme<\/strong> is widely recognized for his pioneering role in the Belgian roadworthiness sector. It oversees <strong>the Ostend and Brussels (Evere) centers<\/strong>. For many years, he was a central figure in the vzw Goca (Groepering van erkende ondernemingen voor autokeuringen en rijbewijzen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goca<\/strong>established in 1938, brings together companies officially recognized for their<a href=\"https:\/\/lama-fortune.com\/famille-beerens-automobile\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"597\"> roadworthiness tests and driving tests<\/a>. In 1962, this federation <strong>was officially recognized as an ASBL<\/strong>. Three years later, the organization of driving tests for people whose licenses have been revoked was added to their mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/lama-fortune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/goca.png\" alt=\"Oswald Van Damme&#039;s company name GOCA\" class=\"wp-image-4355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.lama-fortune.com\/2024\/06\/goca.png 1200w, https:\/\/media.lama-fortune.com\/2024\/06\/goca-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/media.lama-fortune.com\/2024\/06\/goca-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/media.lama-fortune.com\/2024\/06\/goca-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the members of Goca coordinate the operations of<strong>e 77 technical inspection centers and 32 driving test centers in Belgium, <\/strong>in accordance with <a href=\"https:\/\/lama-fortune.com\/famille-essers-transporteur\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"634\">Federation of Public Mobility and Transport Services<\/a>. Oswald and company <strong>Goca<\/strong> total <strong>a fortune of over 43 million euros<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oswald Van Damme, a key figure in Belgium's roadworthiness testing sector, heads up the Ostend and Brussels (Evere) centers. With a net worth of over 43 million euros, he plays a central role in vzw Goca, overseeing 77 technical inspection centers and 32 driving test centers.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,114],"tags":[66,5,27,115],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","category-service","tag-automobile","tag-belgique","tag-flandre","tag-service"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":64,"label":"Automobile"},{"value":114,"label":"Service"}],"post_tag":[{"value":66,"label":"Automobile"},{"value":5,"label":"Belgique"},{"value":27,"label":"Flandre"},{"value":115,"label":"Service"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/media.lama-fortune.com\/2024\/06\/with-tablet-hands-man-uniform-is-working-auto-salon-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Martin Moth\u00e9","author_link":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/author\/mmothe\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":64,"name":"Automobile","slug":"automobile","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":64,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":67,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":64,"category_count":67,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Automobile","category_nicename":"automobile","category_parent":0},{"term_id":114,"name":"Service","slug":"service","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":114,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":90,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":114,"category_count":90,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Service","category_nicename":"service","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":66,"name":"Automobile","slug":"automobile","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":66,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":61,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":5,"name":"Belgique","slug":"belgique","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":287,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":27,"name":"Flandre","slug":"flandre","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":200,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":115,"name":"Service","slug":"service","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":115,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":51,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}