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How fun. The MEP who loudly announces how great Qatar's labor rights are is found with hundreds of thousands of euros in cash, allegedly from "a gulf country".
by mabbo 4y ago
How fun. The MEP who loudly announces how great Qatar's labor rights are is found with hundreds of thousands of euros in cash, allegedly from "a gulf country".
Presuming the allegations are true, all I can think is how basic the whole affair is. TV has made me come to expect something more complicated and devious.
- thepangolino 4y agoAnything more devious doesn't make the news. Had she had a partner start a startup and fill in all the propriate tax forms after recieving millions of Euros you'd at most have heard about "possible conflicts of interests", not blatant corruption like here.
- greggarious 4y agosounds like a great way to spark riots
- mytailorisrich 4y agoQatar is the second largest exporter of LNG. They can do what they want and it seems like a stupid mistake if they were indeed bribing EU politicians in cash... That being said, earlier this year there was a story here in the UK about King Charles once receiving 1 million in cash (in a shopping bag!) from the Gulf as 'charity donation'... so perhaps EU politicians should setup more charities. Edit: in fairness, the cash donation to Charles' charity was correctly booked and reported in the charity's accounts and so nothing much happened when the story broke. But bags of cash do tend to raise eyebrows and the conclusion was that it'd be best not to accept them in the future...
- b112 4y agoBut bags of cash do tend to raise eyebrows and the conclusion was that it'd be best not to accept them in the future... You can raise your eyebrows all you wish, I'll stick with the bag of cash, thank you.
- Krasnol 4y agoOther media already report that it indeed might be Qatar: https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/kaili-festnahme-korruption-europaparlament-101.html https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/kaili-festnahme-kor... (German)