A man identified as Faycal Cheffou has been charged with terrorist murder after the Brussels attacks which left 31 people dead.
Cheffou has also been charged with participation in a terrorist group and attempted terrorist killings.
He was one of several men detained in police raids on Thursday.
Belgian prosecutors said a second man, Aboubakar A, has also been charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist group.
Authorities in Belgium and France have carried out numerous raids and made a series of arrests over the last few days as part of a major terror crackdown.
Among those most-wanted is the third suspect in the Brussels airport bombings.
The so-called "man in white" was pictured on CCTV wearing a hat and a light jacket with the two other suspects who blew themselves up moments later.
He was then seen fleeing the building after his bomb allegedly failed to detonate.
Belgium media reports suggest Cheffou, a freelance journalist, is the third man, however that has not been confirmed by Belgian prosecutors.
Other reports claim the "man in white" is Mohamed Abrini, an alleged acquaintance of detained Paris attacks suspect, Salah Abdeslam.
Belgium remains on high alert following this week's twin attacks at the Zaventem Airport and on a train pulling out of the city's Maalbeek metro station.
One man was shot and wounded by police in Brussels on Saturday after failing to respond to demands to raise his arms.
The man, wearing a backpack, was shot in the leg as he stood with a young girl, thought to be his daughter.
Sky's Mark Stone said it is now thought the shooting may have been in error and that man failed to respond to police because he did not understand French or Flemish.
Brussels airport, meanwhile, has announced it will not reopen for passenger flights before Tuesday.
The latest terror raids come amid reports that the ringleader of November's Paris attacks may have been involved in plans to attack the Brussels airport early last year.
Drawings and a map of Zaventem Airport were found on a computer and USB device in an apartment in Athens used by Abdelhamid Abaaoud in January 2015, Greece's SKAI news organisation reported.
Abaaoud was killed during a raid by police in the Saint-Denis area of Paris in November 2015, days after orchestrating the terror strikes in the city.
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