Qatargate Giorgi and money laundering statements before the Brussels judges

Qatargate, Giorgi and money laundering, statements before the Brussels judges

Qatar, Morocco, but also Mauritania. The Belgian 007: «Panzeri and Giorgi use an encrypted language to hide the money in their apartments

Cash arriving from Qatar and Morocco in cash using drug trafficking methods, meetings in Paris discussing ties and clothing coded to mean wads of banknotes, and after close contacts with Morocco and Qatar now a “treaty” with Mauritania .

Francesco Giorgi’s testimonies before Belgian magistrates after his Qatargate arrest filled pages with reports, partly because Eva Kaili’s partner could not deny what the intelligence services knew about him and about Panzeri after months of stalking and bugging them. The excerpts of the protocol published today by Fatto Quotidiano confirm the information of the first moment: it is an investigation created and led by 007 from Brussels on the NGO Fight impunity founded by Panzeri, which immediately turned out to be a kind paid agency highlighted the relationships with European parliamentarians who tried to achieve a positive attitude among the clients of the European institution. At the moment, the anti-corruption and money-laundering organization indicted by the Greek judges sees Panzeri and Giorgi as the corrupt who would have been given money, it is not yet known to which official, who must necessarily be a European parliamentarian to make the charge legally enforceable.

As it turns out, the investigations of the Belgian secret services begin in the spring and culminate on April 26 with the burglary in Panzeri’s house, in which 700,000 euros are counted, everything that could be of interest is photographed, bugs and cameras are installed. The result can be found in the Vsse Brussels disclosure attached to the documents. Panzeri and Giorgi “use an encrypted language to hide the money in their apartments,” writes 007, who speaks of a “several million euro deal.” Giorgi reveals to the judges that in relation to Qatar there was “the Algerian”, a certain Boudjellal, who put him in contact with a Palestinian in Turkey who passed him on and with another subject in Belgium. That’s how the money came: “The amount was variable, it’s hard for me to estimate, they were the ones who made the decision,” he says.

Being careful not to leave any traces, he erased the contact numbers from his cell phone. Also active for the Belgian judiciary in favor of Morocco was the MEP Pd (suspended), Andrea Cozzolino, who replaced Panzeri in the delegation, and for the Maghreb when the second was not re-elected in 2019. The same scheme worked with Morocco through the ambassador to Poland, Abderrahim Atmoun, who “brought money from time to time, but not regularly. The amounts involved were in the tens of thousands of euros. I estimate the total at 50,000 euros,” says Giorgi, adding: “He came to Brussels, or we went to Paris, to his house, to his apartment. When we went to get money, we said we would buy ties or suits.”

There is also a trip to Morocco with the Panzeri family, probably one of the gifts mentioned in another article on this site. Finally, a similar activity emerges in favor of Mauritania, for which Giorgi would have been paid, receiving a seemingly fictitious rent for his apartment of 1,500 euros a month plus 300 for expenses, while Panzeri “would have taken 25,000 euros in cash”.

December 21, 2022 (change December 21, 2022 | 22:29)