Introducing Untold: Power for Sale

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

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Introducing Power for Sale, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. In Untold: Power for Sale, host Valentina Pop and a team of FT correspondents from all over Europe investigate what happened in the Qatargate scandal, where EU lawmakers were accused of accepting payments from Qatar to whitewash its image.

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0:00.0	I remember where I was when the news
0:03.0	Metsia away from Gordiol.
0:05.0	It was a Friday in the final.
0:09.0	I remember where I was when the news broke.
0:15.0	I was watching the World Cup when a Belgian news alert popped on my phone.
0:20.0	It was a Friday in Brussels, December 2022.
0:25.3	Vice President of the European Parliament has been arrested. It's a series of raids on properties
0:30.0	across Brussels. A senior member of the European Parliament and three EU officials have been
0:34.6	charged with corruption, money laundering and participating in a criminal
0:37.8	organisation. The alerts were shocking. Offices sealed, computers seized, lawmakers, their families
0:44.8	and staffers jailed. Prosecutors have searched 16 houses and seized $631,800 in Brussels as part of the probe.
0:55.0	They reportedly found bags of cash.
0:58.0	Never before had there been anything like this at the European Parliament.
1:02.0	Several people accused of receiving money and gifts from a Gulf state.
1:07.0	The state in question is widely reported to be Qatar.
1:10.0	She was, you know, this very innocent character who was maybe manipulated by some of the other suspects.
1:16.6	Money is not illegal. It depends. How did you get them? What for?
1:21.6	There must be culturally something very wrong if you consider this to be normal.
1:25.6	Katta was a slave state, that workers were going to die in their thousands.
1:29.3	El Capo is like the...
1:31.3	The kingpin.
1:32.3	Yeah, exactly.
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