Former Italian MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, who was the target of the investigation into the corruption scandal in the European Parliament, has decided to cooperate with the Belgian judicial authorities. He made a partial confession and provided investigators with some information about other MEPs involved in the affair.
One of them is S&D MEP Andrea Cozzolino, reports the daily newspaper La Repubblica. Cozzolino is said to have admitted to Belgian prosecutors that he was involved in attempts by Morocco and Qatar to interfere and influence EU affairs through bribery.
Panzeri, a 67-year-old member of the left-wing Articolo 1 party and the governing board of the Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), Europe’s oldest political group, also accused Marc Tarabella, who is also an S&D MEP in the European Parliament , but the Belgian social democrat Maria Arena also writes the paper.
suspension at home
The Democratic Party (PD), the strongest opposition force in Italy, suspended Cozzolino a few days ago. The MEP should be banned from all party bodies to which he belonged in his group until the ongoing investigation into the “Qatar Gate” corruption scandal is concluded. Cozzolino is considered a key figure in the scandal currently raging in Brussels.
Source: Krone
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