US EditionBelgian Police Raid Targets EU Parliament Corruption Linked to Huawei
- Belgian federal prosecutors arrested several individuals in a corruption case involving the European Parliament and Huawei, suspected of bribing EU lawmakers to promote its commercial policies in Europe.
- The prosecutor's office indicated that bribery allegedly benefited Huawei and involved various forms of corruption from 2021 to the present day.
- About 100 federal police officers conducted searches across Brussels, Flanders, Wallonia, and Portugal amid the investigation led by the Belgian authorities.
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Cases of espionage, corruption, sanctions, financial problems... Chinese tech giant Huawei has been in the eye of the hurricane and now, again, it is. The company has starred in the headlines this week after Belgian Justice will confirm that it has been investigating for years a plot of alleged bribes to MEPs by Huawei to try to influence the European Union’s decision-making processes. Travels or invitations to football matches were some of the …
The representatives of Huawei suspected of corruption, the European Parliament suspends their access
This decision comes the day after a wave of searches and interrogations in an investigation into corruption in the hands of the Belgian justice system The European Parliament announced Friday 14 March
Another Corruption Probe Rocks European Parliament’s Mainstream
Once again, a corruption scandal looms over the European Parliament (EP), as investigators from the Belgian federal judicial police conducted 21 searches across the Brussels region, Flanders, Wallonia, and Portugal. According to the Belgian outlet Le Soir, after several months of investigations, authorities have arrested multiple lobbyists working for the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, suspected of bribing current and former MEPs to promote the c…
Lobbyists from the Chinese technology group Huawei are said to have bribed MEPs, and the company announced that it will work with the Belgian public prosecutor's office.
This is a "preventive measure" with "immediate effect," a European Parliament spokesman said, following police searches and arrests made in the context of a corruption investigation.
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