Ex-MEP to serve prison in ‘cash-for-laws’ scandal

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Series Details 03.02.14
Publication Date 03/02/2014
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Former Slovenian MEP Zoran Thaler was sentenced in January 2014 to two and a half years in prison by a Ljubljana court following his involvement in the 'cash-for-amendments' scandal from 2011, a journalistic spoof aimed at 'testing MEPs’ ethics'.
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EurActiv, 21.01.11: Journalistic spoof traps MEPs in bribery affair http://www.euractiv.com/future-eu/journalistic-spoof-traps-meps-br-news-503281
ESO: Background information: MEP resigns over claims of lobbyist payments http://www.europeansources.info/record/mep-resigns-over-claims-of-lobbyist-payments/
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