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Russian influence: Police raid EU parliament offices and staffer home

The Belgian prosecutor says the employee played a ‘significant role’ in a suspected Russian propaganda operation which infiltrated the European Parliament.

Brussels and French police carried out a series of simultaneous raids at European Parliament offices in Brussels and Strasbourg as well as at the home of a parliamentary staffer in the Belgian neighbourhood of Schaerbeek on Wednesday morning.

The searches are part of a sprawling probe into a Russian influence operation suspected to have paid sitting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda from the heart of EU institutions in Brussels.

The Belgian Prosecutor, which ordered Wednesday’s searches, said there were “indications” that the parliament staffer in question played a “significant role” in the Russian propaganda operation, confirming that the raid is linked to a case involving “interference, passive corruption and membership of a criminal organisation.”

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The searches are part of a sprawling probe into a Russian influence operation suspected to have paid sitting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda from the heart of EU institutions in Brussels.

The Belgian Prosecutor, which ordered Wednesday’s searches, said there were “indications” that the parliament staffer in question played a “significant role” in the Russian propaganda operation, confirming that the raid is linked to a case involving “interference, passive corruption and membership of a criminal organisation.”

The search is the latest development in an ongoing investigation into Dutch-listed news company Voice of Europe, sanctioned by the European Union earlier this month for peddling the Kremlin’s propaganda.

According to Czech media citing officials from intelligence services, the allegations involve politicians from Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary.

MEP Maximilian Krah - whose Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was recently expelled from its European family after making damning Nazi comments to an Italian newspaper - has also brushed off his links with Voice of Europe, asserting that despite giving interviews to the company, he had not benefitted financially.

The latest development in the investigation comes just days before some 370 million EU voters head to the polls to elect new members of the European Parliament, in a vote much feared to be the target of the Kremlin’s interference.

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