Key EU corruption suspect makes deal to earn leniency

BRUSSELS (AP) — The alleged ringleader of a European Union cash-for-influence corruption scandal linked to Qatar and Morocco has decided to reveal information about the affair in exchange for a lighter sentence, Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday.
Pier Antonio Panzeri — who was charged last month with corruption, money laundering and membership of a criminal organization — and his lawyers have signed a memorandum under a little used legal article in which he repents for his acts,