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In addition to Qatar, Morocco would even be implicated within the corruption scandal that’s rocking the European Parliament, in keeping with investigation paperwork to which the German weekly Der Spiegel has had entry. In its digital version, it accuses former Italian MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri of getting obtained bribes from each Qatar and Morocco in change for influencing political choices within the European Parliament.
According to Belgian investigators, two of Panzeri’s family members helped the previous Social Democrat MEP transport “items” delivered to them in an Eastern European nation by the Rabat ambassador to that state. Panzeri, arrested final week together with the previous vice chairman of the European Parliament Eva Kailí, her sentimental companion and a fourth particular person who has not been recognized, maintained ties with Morocco throughout her time as an MEP, between 2004 and 2019.
According to Der Spiegel, throughout that interval he was a member of the establishment’s Human Rights subcommittee and of the delegation liable for relations with the Maghreb states.
The former MEP can be the founder and president of the human rights group Fight Impunity, during which Francesco Giorgi, Kailí’s sentimental companion, additionally labored. The 4 detainees, who in keeping with Belgian media have been charged with crimes of participation in a felony group, cash laundering and corruption, are scheduled to seem this Wednesday earlier than the Brussels Council Chamber, which can determine whether or not to maintain them in custody.