Qatargate, Giorgi and the money laundering, the statements to the magistrates of Bruxelles-Corriere.it

Money that arrives in cash from Qatar and Morocco with drug trafficking methods, meetings in Paris during which ties and suits are spoken in code to mean wads of banknotesand after close contacts with Morocco and Qatar, a “contract” with Mauritania is now appearing.

Francesco Giorgi’s statements to the Belgian magistrates after his arrest for the Qatargate filled pages of reports, also because Eva Kaili’s partner could not deny what the secret services knew about him and about Panzeri after having followed and intercepted them for months . The excerpts from the minutes published today by the Fatto Quotidiano confirm the information of the first moment: it is an investigation born and managed by the 007 of Brussels on the NGO Fight impunity founded by Panzeri which immediately turned out to be a sort of paid agency of relations with European parliamentarians who tried to obtain a favorable attitude to these customers of the European institution. At the moment, the organization aimed at corruption and money laundering accused by the Greek magistrates sees Panzeri and Giorgi as the corruptors who would have given money to which public official is not yet known, who inevitably must be a European parliamentarian in order for the accusation to stand up legally.

It emerges that the investigation by the Belgian secret services began in the spring and culminated on 26 April with the intrusion into Panzeri’s house where 700,000 euros were counted, everything that could be of interest was photographed and bugs and cameras installed. The result can be read in the disclosure of the Vsse of Brussels attached to the documents. Panzeri and Giorgi “use a coded language hiding the money in their apartments”, write the 007 who speak of a “business of several million euros”. Giorgi reveals to the magistrates that as far as Qatar is concerned, there was “the Algerian”, a certain Boudjellal, who put him in contact with a Palestinian in Turkey who passed him on and to another person in Belgium. That’s how the cash came in. “The total was variable, it’s difficult for me to estimate it, they were the ones to decide,” he says.

He was careful not to leave traces, he deleted the contact numbers from his mobile phone. For the Belgian justice in favor of Morocco, the European deputy Pd (suspended) Andrea Cozzolino was also active, who replaced Panzeri in the delegation and for the Maghreb when in 2019 the second was not re-elected. The same scheme worked with Morocco through the ambassador to Poland Abderrahim Atmoun who «brought money from time to time but not on a regular basis. They were amounts of a few tens of thousands of euros. I estimate the total sum at 50,000 euros », Giorgi says, adding that « He came to Brussels, or we went to Paris, to his house, to his apartment. When we went to get money, we said we were going to get ties or suits.’

There is also a trip to Morocco with the Panzeri family, probably the one of the gifts mentioned in another article on this site. Finally, a similar activity emerges in favor of Mauritania for which Giorgi would have been paid by receiving A rent, it would seem fictitious, for his apartment of 1,500 euros a month plus 300 for expenses, while Panzeri would have collected “25 thousand euros in cash”.