hi dreri;
certainly without wanting to intimdate you: are you male or female and what is your age about, just very roughly, please?
Far more important: Are you represented by counsel? If not you really need to be (I/we can not do this for a whole bunch of reasons but we can recommend quite a few really licensed professionals from various countries in the meantime experienced in this field).
Regarding the substance: To make a long story short: Are you aware of the fact that there are media reports according to which you might have been dealing with a simple call-center agent either in I. or in Panama? What makes you so certain that the linkedin-profil you are communicating with is a real person using his/her real name?
Regarding the ombudsman, yes please undergo the process once more and request an amount below Euro 170K. Please, also notice that there is a three month period between having asked for a reply from the CIF by serving a demand letter upon them and their failure to reply to this request. Sofar, I have deemed this to be the major pitfall but obviously there are others.
best hb1.
ps: the fact that you in in Belgium is some tactical plus. After the total ban on BO in Belgium it might only be necessary to show a claim in restitution/unjust enrichment and not in plain fraud, the former being a little bit easier, as there are less elements to be proved, whereby I assume your case happened after this ban took effect.