Belgian police returned this Monday to the premises of the European Parliament (EP) in Brussels as part of an investigation into suspected corruption to influence the decisions of the European Union (EU) institution, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said.
“Since Friday, with the support of the European Parliament’s security service, the computer resources of ten parliamentary employees have been “frozen” to prevent the disappearance of data necessary for the investigation. To collect this data,” the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
This is the twentieth search in four days in this investigation, according to a judicial source cited by Agence France-Presse, in investigations related to bribery by Qatar to influence the decisions of the European Parliament regarding the hosting of the 2022 World Cup. Cup that year in the country.
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