Belgian investigative judge Michel Claise issued the arrest warrant for Maria Arena and Alessandra Moretti on February 10. Pier Antonio Panzeri, the alleged leader of the four-member criminal network, has entered into a plea deal with Belgian prosecutors, according to an international arrest warrant obtained by the Belgian newspaper Politico.
The quad will solve it
Of the three members of the "quadruple", Marc Tarabella has been arrested so far. Several organs of the international media tried to present Tarabella as a victim with sensational, biased articles. Among other things, the arrest warrant reveals that Arena and Moretti acted according to Panzeri's instructions at a meeting on a European Parliament resolution on Qatar at the end of 2021. "Qatar solved," press secretary Giuseppe Meroni texted Panzeri.
After the meeting, Panzeri received information about what had happened from Maria Arena, as well as from Francesco Giorgi - another former assistant - who
he was the life partner of the imprisoned Eva Kaili, the vice-president of the European Parliament.
Is everyone innocent?
"I can only say that it was a legitimate exchange of information, as part of normal parliamentary political activity," Meroni told Poilitico. And Moretti flatly denied the accusations brought against him when asked by the newspaper.
According to Politico, the revelation of the series of serious crimes "shook Brussels":
the "institution that often acts grandiosely in matters of the rule of law and anti-corruption went through a period of soul-searching,
while its leaders tried to distance themselves from those involved and introduce reforms," says the Brussels paper . The body does not elaborate on what these "reforms" consist of.
The arrest warrant includes the names of two Moroccans considered key to the allegedly corrupt network: spy Mohamed Belahrech, codenamed M118, who has been known to European intelligence services for quite some time, and Abderrahim Atmoun, Rabat's ambassador to Warsaw.
Source: hirado.hu
Cover image: An image released by Belgian police on December 14, 2022, of nearly €1.5 million in cash seized by authorities. The money was seized during house searches in the Brussels region in the corruption case involving the Socialist Vice-President of the EP. Socialist MEP Eva Kaili, the vice-president of the EP, was arrested on December 9 by the Belgian authorities as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption related to Qatar, and has been in custody since then. (Photo: MTI/AP/Belgian police)
