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Politico (17 January 2023)

BY EDDY WAX

First, it was famous names on the board who quit. Now, Qatargate suspect Pier Antonio Panzeri’s human rights nongovernmental organization is facing the loss of a major donor. 

That donor, the Human Rights Foundation, is looking to claw back some of the €600,000 it gave to Fight Impunity, the NGO run by former MEP Panzeri, who is detained on corruption charges and has now decided to cooperate with the Belgian prosecutor.

Thor Halvorssen, the CEO and founder of the foundation, sent a memo to his staff on January 14 setting out the nonprofit organization’s position and its internal response, given that it was a major donor to Fight Impunity. The foundation also gave €1 million to an NGO called No Peace Without Justice, whose Secretary General Niccolò Figà-Talamanca is also detained on preliminary criminal charges in Belgium as part of the same corruption investigation.

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