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Qatargate: The inside story of the big Brussels bung

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The Investigation of the Qatari Labour Minister's Speech to Al-Mari

The Qatari Labour Minister of Qatar was due to give a presentation in Brussels before the World Cup last year. He met Francesco Georgie and Matteo Panzeri, who had written him a speech that he would make at the event. Investigators heard the two of them rehearsing it before they went to meet the minister in his hotel room. When they returned from their meeting with Al-Mari, one of the investigators noted that the bag,. I think that Panzeri was carrying, looked a bit fatter than it had when they went in. Do we think that means that they're bringing cash out? That was the suggestion, yes. It's all very old-fashioned.

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