The Belgian Public Ministry has confirmed that a total of 20 searches have taken place, 19 of them in private residences and offices, to which is added this afternoon in the premises of the European Parliament.
Euskaraz irakurri: Belgikako Poliziak Europako Parlamentuaren egoitza miatu du Bruselan ‘Qatargate’ auziagatik
The Belgian Police carried out a search on Monday afternoon at the headquarters of the European Parliament (EP) in Brussels to seize data necessary for the investigation of an alleged case of corruption and money laundering by workers of this institution linked to Qatar.
“Since Friday, with the support of the security services of the European Parliament, the computer resources of ten parliamentary collaborators in order to prevent data necessary for the investigation from disappearing. The registration today in the European Parliament was intended to collect this data,” the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
The announcement of the Prosecutor’s Office has coincided precisely with the celebration of a debate in the plenary session of the institution, which this week meets in the French city of Strasbourg -official headquarters of the institution-, on the case of alleged corruption, money laundering and criminal organization revealed last Friday by the Belgian judicial authorities, which they had been investigating it for five months.
In its statement, the Belgian Public Ministry has confirmed that a total of 20 searches have taken place since that day, 19 of them in private residences and offices, to which is added this afternoon in the premises of the European Parliament.
In them “several hundred thousand euros” have been confiscated, specifically, 600,000 euros at the home of one of the suspects, “several hundred thousand euros in a suitcase in a hotel room in Brussels” and “some €150,000 in the apartment of a MEP”, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Although the Prosecutor’s Office has not provided the data, it is known that the vice president of the Eurochamber is accused Eva Kailifrom the Greek socialist party PASOK, as well as the former MEP Antonio Panzeriwho currently ran the NGO Fight Impunity and whose wife and daughter were arrested on Friday in Italy in connection with the case.
The Belgian Prosecutor’s Office has also confirmed that a search of the home of a Belgian MEP was carried out over the weekend in the presence of the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. It would be the socialist MEP Marc Tarabellaaccording to the Belgian press.
Source: Eitb
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