Qatargate, the Turkish lawyer close to Erdogan and the money to Panzeri-Corriere.it’s Equality

To obtain what it calls Ethical Lobbying Services leading to European Parliament statements against the conflict in Syria and war crimes in Yemen, Hakan Camuzan important lawyer who works in London close to President Recep Erdogan, between 2019 and 2021 would have paid 75 thousand euros a to the Equality consultancy of Opera (Milan) headed by Antonio Panzeri and Francesco Giorgi. Others 200 thousand euros they arrived at Equality itself from a Turkish company in 2018, when Panzeri was still a European deputy for Article One.

To reveal the plots of this new mystery in the investigation that has been shocking the European Parliament for three months Financial Times. Equality at the center of the investigations by the Milan deputy prosecutor Fabio De Pasquale which he entered in the register of suspects for money laundering, in an investigation independent of that of Brussels which led to the arrest of Panzeri and Giorgi, two of the three partners of the company closed in Italy in 2021. Equality, as revealed by the
Corriere della Sera

in recent days, he has received in his short life approx 300 thousand euros received fromEngland and from Turkey. He wrote about the connections between the Turkish lawyer and Equality The Truth who also referred to a trip by the same lawyer to Milan. To the English business newspaper, Hakan Camuz he did not explain why his two companies did not turn to the NGO Fight impunity founded in 2019 by Panzeri but preferred to knock on the door of Equality based in the office of accountant Monica Bellini (who is under house arrest), which instead had been conceived by Panzeri and Giorgi as a screen to get cash from Qatar to Italy by disguising it as consultancy payments.

With the Belgian judiciary, Giorgi recorded that to do this, a certain Palestinian suggested that he contact Hakan in England to identify a company to invoice for consultancy and that he had the task of maintaining contact between Panzeri, his daughter Sylvia, Panzeri’s accountant Monica Bellini and this Hakan because he was the only one who spoke English. To the Financial Times, Camuz denied knowing Bellini and Silvia Panzeri, who had been described to him by Giorgi as members of his staff. The Turkish lawyer however stated that two of his groups entered into consultancy contracts with Panzeri, through Giorgi, for alleged parliamentary services which included helping to organize meetings with other deputies, public events in Brussels, parliamentary questions and obtaining European funding for humanitarian initiatives. He argued that the results of the business he paid for would be very poor. In the 2019 The Radiant trust, of which Camuz is the trustee, has paid 50 thousand euros to Equality which in 2021 he received 25 thousand euros also from Pronesis, another Camuz company. However, it is not yet clear who owns the Turkish company based in Istanbul which contributed with 200 thousand euros at the end of 2018 to the balance sheet of Equality, which was founded in December of the same year while Panzeri still sat in the European Parliament.

To the Financial Times Camuz said he was devastated by Giorgi’s statements to the Brussels investigating judge Michel Claise revealing the true nature of Equality and that he is considering legal action against him. Con would have made an agreement thinking that we were dealing with a legitimate entity that would help us raise awareness of the cases we deal with, Camuz told the business newspaper, specifying that it would be Giorgi who offered him low-cost ethical lobbying services in Brussels.