Parliament on Monday opened an inside probe into Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka after an impartial Russian investigative newspaper, the Insider, reported she had been working as an agent for the Russian secret providers for years.
Ždanoka has denied these claims.
She was one in every of simply 13 MEPs who in March 2022 voted in opposition to a decision condemning Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which induced her to be expelled from the Greens/EFA group. Ždanoka now sits as a non-attached MEP.
“We’re satisfied that Ždanoka isn’t an remoted case,” the three Latvian MEPs wrote, citing considerations over suspicious “public interventions, voting report[s], organised occasions, in addition to covert actions.”
“The Greens/EFA group should bear a level of accountability for long-term cooperation, monetary help, and informational alternate with Ždanoka from July 2004 until March 2022,” the group added.
The Latvian Socialists didn’t signal the MEPs’ letter — and there are not any Latvian Greens in Parliament after Ždanoka’s expulsion from the group.
The Greens/EFA group launched a assertion Tuesday saying it was “deeply involved” in regards to the allegations and requested for Ždanoka to be banned from Parliament at some stage in the probe.