From Qatargate to Huawei, the key investigations underway in Brussels | EUROtoday

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Three alleged scandals and no ending but on the horizon. From the suitcases full of money from Qatargate to the pro-Russian affect networks, as much as the shadow of Huawei: there are a number of maxi-investigations which have shaken European politics within the final three years, bringing outstanding Italian names into the community of Belgian justice.

QATARGATE – At daybreak on 9 December 2022, the police raid on the house of the previous vice-president of the EU Parliament Eva Kaili and her accomplice Francesco Giorgi prompted the explosion of the case that promised to reshape European energy: widespread searches, photographs of suitcases filled with banknotes which in just some hours went all over the world. At the middle of the alleged corruption community is the previous socialist MEP Antonio Panzeri, believed to be the director of the alleged plot with Qatar and Morocco.

The first phases of the investigation have been orchestrated by choose Michel Claise, who was later pressured to go away resulting from a suspected battle of curiosity involving his son. Three years later, the investigation – which additionally concerned the dem Andrea Cozzolino – was reworked right into a matryoshka with no outcomes: the strategies of the Belgian justice system additionally ended up underneath investigation, no indictment and just one chapter closed, that of Panzeri – because of a repentant pact – though immediately he’s underneath investigation in Milan for aggravated slander. In the following few hours a brand new step will happen: the primary vote of the European Chamber on the revocation of the immunity of the PD MEPs Elisabetta Gualmini and Alessandra Moretti.

MOSCAGATE – In a European Parliament already polished in view of the European elections, between April and June 2024 the Belgian police returned to raids following the thread of an investigation for suspects interference and corruption in favor of the Kremlin which overwhelmed the AfD ultranationalist Maximilian Krah.

His former right-hand man, the Frenchman Guillaume Pradoura, then assistant to the previous Dutch sovereignist MEP Marcel De Graaff, additionally ended up within the crosshairs. The accusations – born from the studies of the Czech 007s – revolve across the Voice of Europe platform, now blocked throughout the continent. And the case initially additionally touched some Italian MEPs, however no prices have been formalized towards them.