€1m Qatar Corruption Scandal Rocks European Parliament
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article in The Times.
This is the sub-heading.
A senior MEP and three officials have been charged with corruption, money laundering and participating in a criminal organisation.
As Cilla would have said “Surprise Surprise!”
The Anonymous Widower 
It seems to me that bribery is just ‘illegal lobbying’.
According to the Parliamentary Register of Members Interests quite a number of our MPs have been the beneficiaries of such Qatari ‘legal bribery’.
What an ethical dilemma.
Comment by fammorris | December 13, 2022 |
Corruption in the EU? Heaven forefend 😁😁
Comment by Maurice Reed | December 13, 2022 |
At least the MEP and others involved are in police custody unlike those involved in our home-grown PPE scandal.
Comment by JohnC | December 13, 2022 |
It seems to me that often in UK nobody goes to jail
3 November, 2022 Serious Fraud Office News Release
Glencore Energy UK Ltd will pay £280,965,092.95 million (over 400 million USD) after an SFO investigation revealed it paid US $29 million in bribes to gain preferential access to oil in Africa.
I wondered why the dividends weren’t better
Comment by fammorris | December 13, 2022 |