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Spies, cash and luxury hotels: EU corruption probe explores Morocco links
Pier Antonio Panzeri and his loved ones envisioned to welcome the new yr in a 5-star resort in Marrakesh, allegedly paid for by the Moroccan authorities. In its place the previous Italian lawmaker, his wife and daughter, put in it less than arrest. Panzeri has emerged as a central determine in the corruption probe that stunned the Brussels establishment in December when Belgian law enforcement raided the premises of the European parliament and seized a lot more than €1.5mn in dollars at Panzeri and two other suspects’ residences. Qatar, prosecutors think, employed Panzeri and his community to increase its picture in Brussels ahead of the Fifa World Cup. But the…