I remember where I was when the news broke.
I was watching the World Cup when a Belgian news alert popped on my phone.
It was a Friday in Brussels, December 2022.
Vice president of the European Parliament has been arrested.
A series of raids on properties across Brussels.
A senior member of the European Parliament and three EU officials have been charged with corruption,
money laundering and participating in a criminal organisation.
The alerts were shocking.
Offices sealed, computers seized, lawmakers, their families and staffers jailed.
Prosecutors have searched 16 houses and seized $631,800 in Brussels as part of the probe.
They reportedly found bags of cash.
Never before had there been anything like this at the European Parliament.
Several people accused of receiving money and gifts from a Gulf state.
The state in question is widely reported to be Qatar.
She was this very innocent character who was maybe manipulated by some of the other suspects.
Money is not illegal.
It depends how did you get them, what for.
There must be culturally something very wrong if you consider this to be normal.
Qatar was a slave state that workers were going to die in their thousands.
El Capo is like the...