Qatargate: 'No Peace Without Justice' Rome office searched

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 21 - The Rome office of the 'No Peace Without Justice' NGO was searched Tuesday in connection with the 'Qatargate' case of alleged bribery by the Middle Eastern country and Morocco to get favours from the European Parliament.
    The head of the charity, Italy's Niccolò Figa-Talamanca, is one of several people under investigation in the case. He was arrested by the Belgian authorities in December and released from jail early in February. Figa-Talamanca denies any wrongdoing.
    Searches at the headquarters of 'No Peace Without Justice', of which Figà-Talamanca is the secretary general, and at the home of the association's treasurer Antonella Casu, in Rome, were carried out by the Milan public prosecutor's office on the basis of a European investigation order by the Brussels judiciary in the context of Qatargate.
    Casu was also questioned,assisted by a lawyer. (ANSA).