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EU closing in on MEPs who took Russian money (euobserver.com)
submitted 7 months ago by HowRu68@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de
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But the disclosures were just part of a wider, concerted probe into Russian interference in the European Parliament (EP) by European intelligence services, involving also Belgium's VSSE domestic spy agency.

Disciplinary action must be swiftly taken against any MEPs or [EP election] candidates involved," said the office of Liberal French MEP Valérie Hayer, who first called for the EP discussion.

"A full and transparent internal investigation by the president of the European Parliament is now needed," her office added.

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[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The BIS and ABW have not named names so far, but BIS had a 300-page dossier on illicit payments worth "millions of [Czech] crowns" (tens of thousands of euros), it has said.

ABW seized €72,000 in cash in raids in the Warsaw region.

It's kind of insulting when perhaps-not-Moscow offers just a meagre couple of 10000 € as bribe to our MEPs. And embarassing when they accept such a sum.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Imagine betraying your country for less money than a Toyota Yaris

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

Well, to be fair – we don't know what the MEPs were paid for, we don't even know that they were paid for anything or whether these payments were really illegal.

Probably these were donations rather than bribes.

If you donate to people who are on your side to help them gain influence, you're using your money more effectively than by paying bribes.