The Belgian federal police on Tuesday searched the offices of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Brussels in connection with a corruption investigation launched in Germany, sources from the political formation itself have reported.
The European party »is cooperating with full transparency» with the authorities involved and offering all the information and documentation required, the EPP said in a statement released after learning of the searches and warn that it will not comment further.
The investigations have involved both Belgian police officers and police officers from the German state of Thuringia and, according to ‘popular’ sources consulted by Europa Press, point to the leader of the CDU in this region, Mario Voigt.
The same sources have warned that Voigt does not hold any position in the European People’s Party but did assume the tasks of the online election campaign of the formation in the elections to the European Parliament in 2019, elections led by the current president of the EPP, also German Manfred Weber.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
