After having his homes raided in December last year over alleged large-scale money laundering conducted for “about a decade,” followed later by the raiding of several properties belonging to his so-called ‘right-hand man,’ Didier Reynders is now being probed over alleged links with a blacklisted Kremlin oligarch.
Reynders served as European Commissioner for Justice for five years. His role included “preventing and identifying breaches of the rule of law.”
He is also well-known as the official who opened what we at europeanconservative.com have described as the “politically-biased infringement procedures against the conservative governments of Poland and Hungary.”
The Brussels prosecutor’s office last week told reporters that it was “re-examining” Reynders’ links to Moscow. These concern his relations with Oleg Deripaska, an associate of Vladimir Putin who is blacklisted by both the European Union and the U.S. Officials in Washington describe Deripaska as “among the two [to] three oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis.”
A previous probe into this association was frozen in 2016—“mysteriously,” according to EUobserver.
Belgian MEP Tom Vandendriessche last week complained that the “regime press uncritically celebrated Didier Reynders upon his appointment as European Commissioner,” despite concerns then about his suitability for the role.
De regimepers bejubelde Didier Reynders kritiekloos bij zijn benoeming tot Europees Commissaris. Het is zinvol nog eens te luisteren naar mijn ondervraging uit 2019, in het licht van de recente berichten omtrent diepe corruptie en miljoenenzwendel waarbij de man zou betrokken… pic.twitter.com/Y4RfDIpNr2
NieuwRechts editor Daniel de Liever also accused the “establishment media” of saying as little as possible about ongoing investigations into Reynders’ conduct.
Reynders has denied the allegations made against him, while Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission appears to be refusing to acknowledge that they even exist.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
