On Tuesday 30 January, the European Parliament announced that it had opened an investigation into the MEP, Tatjana Ždanoka (Non-attached, Latvian), concerning possible espionage activities carried out by her on behalf of Russia since 2005.
According to the investigation conducted by several media outlets, including the Latvia-based Russian investigative media outlet The Insider and the Swedish newspaper Expressen, the MEP exchanged information with Russian agents about “physical...