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Top EU Parliament Officials Arrested In Huge Qatar-Linked Corruption Probe

A European Parliament vice president along with a handful of other EU officials and aides has been arrested and brought in for questioning by police in Brussels on Friday, with the AFP identifying that "Belgian police arrested Greek socialist MEP Eva Kaili, a European Parliament vice-president, in connection with an investigation into corruption implicating World Cup host Qatar."

Police have further sealed off the European Parliament offices of three MEPs, including Kaili, as well as Belgian S&D group members Maria Arena and Marc Tarabella. "Today's searches have enabled investigators to recover about 600,000 euros in cash," the prosecutors said in a statement, after their homes were also raided.

The evidence is pointing to a large influence-peddling operation which involved an exchange of cash and favors from Qatari officials. The explosive story is grabbing international headlines at the sensitive moment the Qatar-hosted World Cup is headed into the semi-finals on Saturday, down to the final four.

Earlier in the day police said that 16 raids in total were launched across Belgium's capital, and only later on Friday was Qatar named at center of the probe.

"Computer equipment and mobile phones were also seized. These elements will be analysed as part of the investigations," the Belgium-based EU prosecutor's office stated after it was "suspected a Gulf country (of influencing) the economic and political decisions of the European parliament."

It was done "by paying large sums of money or offering large gifts to" prominent figures in the European parliament, according to the official allegation.

44-year old Kaili has been a European MEP since 2014, and initially rose to visibility as a popular Greek television presenter. According to more via the AP: