Introducing Untold: Power for Sale
Behind the Money
Topher Forhecz
4.4 • 350 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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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 broke. |
| 0:04.0 | Messy away from Brodiol. |
| 0:05.0 | Jenshino, all by the final. |
| 0:08.0 | 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. |
| 0:25.0 | Vice President of the European Parliament has been arrested. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a series of raids on properties across Brussels. |
| 0:31.0 | A senior member of the European Parliament and three EU officials |
| 0:34.3 | have been 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 and staffers jailed. |
| 0:47.0 | Prosecutors have searched 16 houses and seized 631,800 dollars 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. |
| 1:06.0 | 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. |
| 1:16.5 | Money is not illegal. |
| 1:18.5 | It depends. How did you get them? What forth? |
| 1:21.5 | There must be culturally something very wrong if you |
| 1:24.5 | consider this to be normal. Kattle was a slave state that workers were going to die |
| 1:28.2 | in their thousands. A little capo is like the kingpin. Yeah, exactly. |
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