Starting Friday, Belgian police began searching more than a dozen homes, seized at least 600,000 euros and arrested at least four people in an anti-corruption sweep that prosecutors are calling bribes connected to an unnamed Gulf state. One of those arrested was a top member of parliament, Eva Kaili, who had traveled to Qatar in October ahead of the FIFA World Cup and later defended the country as a “leader in terms of labor rights” in the region. Qatar has denied any involvement. The World’s host Marco Werman spoke with Alberto Alemanno, a professor of European Law at HEC Paris, about the matter.
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