Brussels, (EFE) in the center of the country.
“The party is cooperating in full transparency with the authorities involved, providing all the relevant information and documentation. As this is an ongoing judicial investigation, the EPP will not comment further,” the European People’s Party said in a statement.
Party sources told EFE that the investigation is into a contractor who worked for the EPP during the 2019 European election campaign and one of its subcontractors in Germany.
According to Euractiv, a partner of EFE, the investigation focuses on a possible case of corruption in a contract awarded by the current leader of the CDU in Thuringia, Mario Voigt, who in 2019 directed the digital campaign of the then head of the European PP list. and today president of both the party and its group in the Eurochamber, Manfred Weber.
Voigt, who awarded that contract for a digital campaign action to a Thuringian company, already lost his parliamentary immunity last September following an investigation by the German Prosecutor’s Office.
However, it has not been confirmed if this action has to do with the case for which the searches in Brussels have been produced today, in which several computers have been seized.
The PPE sources ruled out, on the other hand, any relationship with the bribery scheme in the European Parliament allegedly linked to Qatar and Morocco, revealed last December and for which three deputies and a former MEP, all of them Social Democrats, are still in prison.
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