Allegations of MEPs taking money while repeating Pak charges on Kashmir

Huge amounts of money were allegedly paid by individuals to influence decision-making inside European Parliament.

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

In January and August last year, a London-based law firm, which claims to have a presence in 18 countries, released what it termed as an “investigative” report on the “atrocities” that it claimed were happening in Kashmir.

On the basis of this “investigation”, which it claimed was based on more than 2,000 testimonies, Hakan Camuz, the director of international law at the said law firm named, “Stoke White”, filed an application with the London police seeking the arrest of then then Indian Army chief Manoj Mukund Narvane and Home Minister Amit Shah.

Now the same law firm and its director have been accused of having paid bribes to European Members of Parliament (MEPs) in lieu of availing their “parliamentary services”. These included facilitating meetings with other MEPs, organizing public events in Brussels, raising parliamentary questions, securing EU funding for their “charitable” causes and passing resolutions condemning “war crimes”.