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Qatar is singled out for attempted bribery in the EU

today at 2.22pm Jacob Ruderstam

Police in Belgium have arrested and interrogated four people after various attacks around Brussels, TT reports.

The crackdown is related to attempted bribery in the EU Parliament. Police raided 16 locations in central Brussels on Friday. Among those arrested is a former member of the EU Parliament.

The suspicions are that a country tried to gain influence over economic and political decisions by paying large sums of money.

The prosecutors in Belgium do not name names, but the newspaper Le Soir singles out Qatar as the country that would benefit from the bribes.

During the raids, the equivalent of just over six million Swedish kronor in cash, computer equipment and mobile phones were seized, according to the news agency.

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