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This Monday the Belgian Police carried out a raid on the office of the European External Action Service (EEAS) of the EU as part of an investigation into a case of alleged community fund fraud and corruption. Searches have also been carried out at the College of Europe in Bruges and at private homes. According to the agency Reuters Citing sources from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, there are at least three people detained.
The portal Euractiv advances that the arrests are part of a case of embezzlement of European public funds in 2021 and 2022. The raids have been carried out in several locations in Belgium throughout the morning and the agents have seized documentation related to the investigations. A dozen agents, also from the European anti-fraud office, participated in the search at the headquarters of the EU diplomatic service.
The records constitute the latest major scandal to affect the EU institutions and increase pressure on the College of Europe and its rector, Federica Mogheriniin turn director of the community diplomatic service, who began her second five-year term in Bruges this year.
Investigators suspect that the College of Europe and its representatives had prior knowledge of a public tender to finance the new EU Diplomatic Academy, an annual training program for European diplomats in Bruges funded by the EEAS.
Specifically, they are trying to decipher the purchase by the academy of a building in Bruges for 3.2 million euros, which obtained aid of 654,000 euros.
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