EU prosecutors search offices of far-right Patriots group in European Parliament over alleged misuse of funds
Summary
EU prosecutors searched offices of the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament on Wednesday, 21 October, as part of an investigation into alleged mismanagement of funds by the now-defunct Identity and Democracy (ID) group. Euronews reports the probe concerns alleged misuse of more than €4 million and that Patriots for Europe could be forced to repay the defunct group's debts. France 24 reports that Identity and Democracy brought together several European far-right parties, including Marine Le Pen's National Rally, and that the searches were part of a graft probe into the bloc's dissolved predecessor. Politico's reports in English and French describe the searches as linked to suspicions of irregular use of European Parliament funds by the former ID group.
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Politico
Source ↗Politico reports that a prosecutor searched the offices of a far-right group in the European Parliament as part of an investigation into alleged mismanagement of funds by the now-defunct ID group.
Euronews
Source ↗Euronews reports that EU prosecutors raided the offices of a far-right group in a probe into the alleged misuse of more than €4 million by the now-defunct Identity and Democracy group, whose debts Patriots for Europe could be forced to repay.
France 24
Source ↗France 24 reports that EU prosecutors on Wednesday searched offices belonging to the far-right Patriots parliamentary group in a graft probe into the bloc's dissolved predecessor, Identity and Democracy, which brought together several far-right parties including Marine Le Pen's National Rally.
Politico
Source ↗Politico's French-language report says the searches at the European Parliament are part of an investigation into suspected irregular use of European Parliament funds by the former Identity and Democracy group, formerly linked to Le Pen's National Rally.
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