{"id":1720,"date":"2026-02-13T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/1720\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:10:15","slug":"belgian-federal-police-raid-european-commission-offices-over-alleged-property-sale-irregularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/1720\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian federal police raid European Commission offices over alleged property sale irregularities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            12\/02\/2026 &#8211; 17:45 GMT+1\n            <\/p>\n<p>Belgian federal police raided several European Commission premises on Thursday as part of a probe into the 2024 sale of real estate assets to the Belgian government&#8217;s investment arm, the Federal Participation and Investment Company.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>At the centre of the investigation is the purchase of 23 Commission buildings, reportedly worth around \u20ac900 million.<\/p>\n<p>The sale happened during the previous mandate, when Johannes Hahn was the European Commissioner for budget and administration.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews reached the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for comment, but did not receive a reply before publication.<\/p>\n<p>A European Commission spokesperson commented on the investigation, saying it is committed to cooperating with the relevant authorities, &#8220;providing any information and assistance needed to ensure a thorough and independent investigation into this matter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as the European Commission is concerned, the sale of the buildings followed established procedures and protocols, and we are confident that the process was conducted in a compliant manner,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are withholding further details from the media to avoid jeopardising the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Jorge Liboreiro contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 12\/02\/2026 &#8211; 17:45 GMT+1 Belgian federal police raided several European Commission premises on Thursday as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,1288,277,125,554,1664],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-corruption","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-police","tag-police-raid"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}