This is the Guardian.

Today, a suitcase full of cash and top EU officials arrested.

We hear about the scandal that's rocking the European Parliament.

Police in Belgium have arrested five people, including a European Parliament Vice President.

It's part of a corruption investigation into alleged influence,

headling by an unspecified, golf state.

Possible corruption at the centre of Europe.

It's an astonishing investigation.

Police searching through homes and offices and Brussels.

Authorities seizing hundreds of thousands of euros in cash.

Some even found in a suitcase in a hotel room.

What you're hearing might sound like the opening to a crime thriller.

But it's not.

This is a tale of powerful politicians and parliamentary aides who make decisions

that affect the whole of the European Union and who have allegedly accepted

more than one million euros in bribes.

It's said that Qatar, via Morocco, have been buying influence and favour in Brussels.

The arrest of Eva Kayley, a senior vice president of the European Parliament

on suspicion of accepting money in exchange for giving Qatar good publicity

has raised questions about just how much influence the golf state may wield on the continent.

Those questions about undue influence about transparency

and about the European Parliament's ability to police itself and its members

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