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After revelations from “Libération”, the European prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation into this senior official of the European Commission who was offered dozens of business class flights and vacations by Qatar.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office “decided to open an ex officio investigation” on Henrik Hololei, a senior European Commission official, after learning of the investigation Liberation published on October 30. Indeed, the Anti-Fraud Office of the European Union has established that the Estonian, former boss of the Directorate General of Transport (the equivalent of a director of central administration in France), had been offered by Qatar dozens of business class flights and even all-expense-paid vacations for sums representing several tens of thousands of euros in exchange for confidential information relating to the negotiation, between 2016 and 2019, of the so-called “deal” agreement. open sky” which allows Qatar Airways to have free access, since 2021, to all EU airports, a particularly generous agreement with no real compensation for European companies.
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