Meanwhile, it has emerged that the scandal could also involve other MEPs.
The Belgian newspaper Le Soir and the weekly Knack finally reconstructed the genesis of the investigation: according to both newspapers, it started in 2021 without any warning or outside intervention, based on an investigation by the Belgian secret services, which had already secretly entered the house of former Italian MEP Antonio Panzeri and found 700,000 euros in cash. At that time, they decided to hand over all the documentation to the Belgian judge who was conducting the investigation.
Greek media: more than 60 MEPs in the crosshairs of Belgian justice
More than 60 Members of the European Parliament are reportedly in the crosshairs of the maximum Qatargate investigation being conducted by the Belgian judiciary. This was reported by the private Greek television station MegaTv. According to the Greek TV, the MEPs who could be affected by the investigations and searches would mostly belong to the political families of the Socialists and Democrats, the European People's Party and other left-wing parties. The German online newspaper Focus.de also reported on this indiscretion, but the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office has not confirmed it.
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Scandal in the European Parliament: the involvement of Morocco
The European Parliament has been rocked by a corruption scandal for several days. In addition to Qatar, Morocco is also suspected of bribing MEPs.
After the Pegasus spying scandal, named after the software developed by an Israeli company that allowed the kingdom to spy on its North African neighbours, including Algeria, and Europeans such as France, Morocco is again mentioned in another scandal linked to corruption in the European Parliament.
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"The people who die from today will also die because of you - Alliance Leadership Today (4.3.2022) all the people who will die from today onwards will also die because of you, because of your weakness, because of your disunity - All the Alliance could do, was to get 50 tons of oil through its supply system to Ukraine - Perhaps so we could burn the Budapest Memorandum (the 1994 treaty in which Russia, the US and Britain promised Ukraine security in return for giving up USSR-era nuclear weapons) - Did we want a NATO like that? - Did you build such an Alliance?" - Don't buy us litres of fuel for litres of our blood, spilled for our common Europe, for our common freedom, for our common future - We have endured nine days of darkness and evil. We are warriors of the light. The history of Europe will always remember that."
Volodymyr Zelensky
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