(Finance) – The former MEP Anthony Panzeri and the current general secretary of the international trade union organization ITUC, Luca Visentini, are among those arrested today in Brussels by the police as part of an investigation for suspect corruption. According to what was reported by the French-speaking newspaper Le Soir, it is suspected that a Gulf country – we are talking about the Qatar – attempted to influence the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament.
In addition to Panzeri and Visentini, the Belgian federal court confirmed the stopped for two other people under presumption of their innocence. Those arrested – writes the Belgian newspaper – are available to the investigating judge who in the next 48 hours could decide to detach any arrest warrants.
As part of the action that began this morning, the police also carried out 14 searches. In Brussels, at Panzeri’s house, according to ‘Le Soir’, the investigators found five hundred thousand euros in cash. All those arrested are from Nationality you hate Italian origin. Among them also the director of an NGO and a parliamentary assistant.
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