Former MEP Antonio Panzeri made the first impression before the Belgian judges admissions say he is ready work together with the investigators and points the finger at the MEP of the Pd Andrea Cozzolino, who has not yet been investigated and has never been questioned. In the minutes of the federal prosecutor’s office in Brussels, reported by il Fatto Quotidiano, Panzeri says: “The agreement stipulated that we would work for it Avoid resolutions against the federal states and we would have received 50,000 euros for that”. Panzeri blames his former Belgian colleague Marc Tarabella and urges the judges to deepen the role of Cozzolino. Panzeri acknowledged only part of the objections raised against him in the investigation, which investigators say sees him as a protagonist of bribe smuggling Morocco and Qatar to influence the decisions of the European Parliament. According to what was discovered by VsseAccording to the Belgian secret service that initiated the investigation, Panzeri’s meddling activity on behalf of Morocco began at least in 2014, while its relationship with Qatar dates back to 2018.
The allegations against Cozzolino
The logs of interrogation di Panzeri was produced before the examining magistrate Michel Claise the day after the December 9 arrest, when the first precautionary measures were also taken against former staffer Francesco Giorgi, his partner, former Vice-President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili, and the trade unionist Luca Visentini then released. In front of the judge, Panzeri began to do things first names: “I add that I have no evidence, but you should check the current President of the Maghreb delegation”, namely Cozzolino. “He is the parliamentarian whose assistant is Giorgi … Among other things, this parliamentarian is responsible for asking questions emergency resolutionsbut it doesn’t go through us, it goes right past, so I don’t know the base well, but I know it happened.”
Cozzolino’s duties
Panzeri mentions the “emergency decisions”. expedited procedure that can bring a text to the classroom vote in a week, avoiding going through the commissions that could also slow down the approval process by months. The former MEP urged investigators to take a closer look at Cozzolino’s activities Chairman of the Maghreb delegation, the same position Panzeri himself held from 2009 to 2017. In the investigative papers, investigators also address another position Cozzolino holds, namely the spyware manufactured as a member of the European Parliament’s special commission investigating the use of the Israeli Pegasus – which Morocco is accused of using even with European leaders in to have used on a large scale. The Belgian intelligence report states that Cozzolino began meddling activities for Morocco from 2019, but his name does not appear on the bribes paid by Qatar, except when mentioned by Panzeri.
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