The EU’s public prosecutor (EPPO) confirmed to POLITICO that it is conducting its own investigation into mismanagement of funds.
Public contracts for friconcludes and irregular donations
The alleged misspconcludeing relates to the budreceive allocated annually by the Parliament for political groups to spconclude on administrative and operative costs, as well as political and information activities related to its work, known in Parliament lingo as “budreceive item 400.”
The financial audit, first reported by Le Monde, states the group breached the public tconcludeer rules when awarding contracts for advertisements, community management, and printing services in several companies in Austria, France, and Germany, totaling about €3,598,803.
“The tconcludeer procedure was conducted as a purely formal exercise, without revealing the intent to have a choice of offers to select the best possible provider,” the report states.
The report also alleges public contracts may have been awarded to companies friconcludely to the party.
In one case, contracts for ads in an Austrian magazine were directly awarded to a company led by a former MEP of the Austrian FPÖ party, a member of the ID group and current member of Patriots, the report states.
