European security investigations exposed the involvement of the Makhzen regime in a corruption scandal that shook the European Parliament, as it revealed that European MPs had received bribes from Morocco in order to influence Parliament’s decisions, especially with regard to the issue of the Western Sahara file.
The results of the investigations of the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office revealed that 15 European deputies were involved in a bribery scandal with the Moroccan intelligence, as some of them admitted that they were a party to an organization funded by the intelligence in Rabat.
The scandal overthrew the Greek Vice-President of the European Parliament, Eva Kayli, who was arrested Thursday, according to the Belgian newspaper “Le Soir”. She said that her Italian companion, Francesco Giorgi, admitted Thursday to Belgian investigators about the suspicious activity of a network working for Morocco, that he was active in one of the organizations used by Morocco. For the purpose of interfering and influencing the decisions of the European Parliament. Francesco Giorgi admitted to investigators that his role in the organization was to manage money, while two other people, the Italian European Parliamentarian, Andrea Cozzolino and the Belgian Mark Trabella, are suspected of obtaining funds from the former Socialist MP in the European Parliament, Pierre Antonio Panziri.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica obtained documents related to the suspicious practices of some deputies in the European Parliament, which is based in Brussels. According to this newspaper, Antonio Panzeri, Andrea Cozzolino and his assistant Francesco Giorgi were in contact with Moroccan intelligence through the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation headed by Yassin Mansour, as well as the Moroccan ambassador to Morocco. Poland, in addition to two Moroccan intelligence agents, without specifying their nationalities. The newspaper notes that “Morocco is the most active in the search for influence on the European Parliament through meetings, interviews and dinners held by senior intelligence officials in Rabat with European representatives.”
The Belgian police said that among the 700,000 euros that were found in Antonio Panziri’s house, a large part of it is bribes from Morocco, according to what was reported by the French “BFMTV” channel, which stated that Panziri’s wife had also received money from Abd al-Rahim Atmoun. , Morocco’s ambassador now in Poland. And the channel reports that the investigators have found the involvement of Gilles Barno, head of the friendship group between the European Union and Morocco, who presented himself as “adviser to the King of Morocco and received many accolades, and left the European Parliament in 2019 and established a non-governmental organization in Morocco.”
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