Belgian Justice investigates Huawei for a conspiracy with alleged bribes to Eurodiputados

The Belgian Justice is investigating a new plot from alleged bribes to EuroDiputados to try to influence the decision processes of the European Union, an operation with which around twenty records were performed and in whose frame different wolves of the Chinese company of Huawei are investigated as a source of pressure.

The office of the federal public prosecutor confirms 21 records from the early hours in different places in Belgium, including the capital, and Portugal, although the research means ‘Follow the money’ that the precise investigation has produced that part of the research is taking place at the Huawei head office in Brussels and, together with the newspapers. involved.

The office of the public prosecutor also indicates that “acts of active corruption in the European Parliament, falsification and use of falsifications” are being investigated by a “criminal organization”.

A spokeswoman for the European Parliament is limited to say that the institution “takes knowledge of the information” published and remembers that the Eurocamara “” When he is asked to fully collaborate with the judicial authorities. “

Since the Belgian public prosecutor, for their part, they declare that one hundred federal police have participated in the operation and have been arrested to be interviewed “different people” for their alleged participation in a corruption network “from 2021 to the present.” Innocence, the corruption plot started to walk four years ago, but until today it has remained “regular and very discreet” under the umbrella of an alleged work of ‘commercial lobist’.

The prebendas had “different forms,” ​​explains the Belgian public ministry, for example through payments for certain political positions or “excessive gifts” such as travel or invitations for football matches; All this to “promote purely private commercial interests” in political decision -making.

The researchers suspect that bribes, for example, hidden themselves, for example the costs of the organization of conferences and paid through various intermediaries. That is why the investigation is also aimed at identifying possible crimes of money laundering.

It is the second case of corruption that the Belgian authorities expose in recent years to EP members, after the known as ‘Qatargate’ for which various Euro drugs of the European group of socialists and Democrats (S&D) were arrested for alleging receiving payments from Qatar and Markco.