(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, JAN 18 - "This morning Andrea Cozzolino accepted the invitation to be heard addressed to him by the Jurisdictional Commission of the European Parliament, to reiterate his total extraneousness to the facts of the investigation called Qatargate.
In view of his hearing, Cozzolino has decided to suspend himself by the S&D group, in order to allow Juri's work to take place in the best conditions of autonomy and impartiality".
The lawyers FedericoConte, Dezio Ferraro, Dimitri De Becó communicate it in a note, on behalf of the MEP Andrea Cozzolino.
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