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Former MEP Maria Arena charged in Qatargate scandal

Former MEP Maria Arena charged in Qatargate scandal


Arena advised the newspaper La Libre Belgique on Saturday that the judge charged her for taking part in a prison group, however not for corruption or cash laundering. Most of the opposite major defendants have been hit with all three prices.

She advised the paper that it was a vindication of herself, in gentle of media reporting that instructed she could have obtained items.

“For two years, I’ve seen my identify sullied and denounced within the press with accusations suggesting items I supposedly obtained in trade for favors — since that’s what corruption is — and at last, the judge didn’t retain any of that,” Arena advised La Libre.

She maintained her innocence, and repeated her declare that the media had been out to get her, saying: “In truth, I’m charged as a result of I do know different individuals who themselves are charged for corruption.”

Arena, a Belgian socialist politician, was the chair of European Parliament’s subcommittee on human rights and a number one gentle of her Socialists and Democrats group when the scandal broke in late 2022.

In January 2023, Arena gave up her position as chair of the human rights committee after POLITICO revealed she didn’t declare a visit paid by Qatar (for which she blamed her assistant).

She remained as an MEP till the 2024 European Parliament election, the place she didn’t stand as a candidate.

The Belgian authorities’ investigation is but to go to trial and is going through a number of authorized setbacks from the authorized groups of different major defendants, comparable to former Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili and the alleged mastermind of the corruption ring, former MEP Antonio Panzeri.

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