Belgian authorities arrested four people, including a former MP, this Friday. an investigation launched months ago into a Qatar corruption scheme linked to the European Parliament, It was reported in a statement made by the Belgian Attorney General’s Office.
Belgian Federal Police carried out this Friday 16 housing registrations in different regions Brussels under investigation allegation that the organization is involved in money laundering and criminal activities, Noting that the authorities seized, the prosecutor’s office said, 600,000 Euros in cash.
“For several months now, Federal Judicial Police investigators have been suspecting a Gulf country. Influencing the economic and political decisions of the European Parliamentor by offering large sums of money or gifts to defend a political or strategic position,” federal officials detailed.
The conspiracy leaked to the European Parliament. intervention in European politics and, respectively, related to corruption schemes linked to Qatar. In particular, the former socialist MP Pier-Antonio Panzeri, the general secretary of the European Trade Union Conference Luca Visentini, the director of an NGO and a parliamentary assistant, all Italian nationals, Belgian newspaper ‘Le’ ses’.
The safe also bounces four parliamentary advisers from the socialist group and another from the ‘popular’ groupAn official from the European Parliament and representatives of the ‘lobbies’ operating in Brussels, although they have not been deprived of their liberty.
Parliamentary sources consulted by Europa Press, “as always, The European Parliament cooperates fully with the responsible national authorities.“.