Pice searches in Eurean Parliament offices in Belgium, France amid Russia influence probe

The home of a parliamentary staffer in the Belgian neighborhood of Schaerbeek was also searched, Ukrinform reports with reference to Euronews.

The searches are part of a sprawling probe into a Russian influence eration suspected to have paid sitting Members of the Eurean Parliament (MEPs) to spread pro-Kremlin praganda from the heart of EU institutions in Brussels.

The Belgian prosecutor says the EP employee played a “significant re” in a suspected Russian praganda eration which infiltrated the Eurean Parliament.

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The raid is linked to a case invving "interference, passive corruption and membership of a criminal organization," prosecutors added.

Asked for an official statement by Euronews, the Eurean Parliament's press services said: "We can't comment on ongoing investigations."

The search is the latest develment in an ongoing investigation into Dutch-listed news company Voice of Eure, sanctioned by the Eurean Union earlier this month for peddling the Kremlin's praganda.

The news company claimed to provide "uncensored news from Eure and the world" and as recently as this March held one-on-one interviews and debates with sitting MEPs broadcasted from the Eurean Parliament in Brussels and in Strasbourg.

In late March, Czech authorities announced it had busted a Russian influence eration conducted through Voice of Eure, alleging financial transactions had been made to elected officials in the Eurean Parliament and in national parliaments.

According to Czech media citing officials from intelligence services, the allegations invve piticians from Germany, France, Pand, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Hungary.

One of the MEPs interviewed by the so-called media was Anders Vistisen, who's been representing the Eurean Parliament's far-right faction – Identity and Democracy (ID) – in debates ahead of June's Eurean elections.

The latest develment in the investigation comes just days before some 370 million EU voters head to the pls to elect new members of the Eurean Parliament, in a vote much feared to be the target of the Kremlin's interference.