Corruption is Everywhere > Even in the EU Commissioners Office; Another Ukraine military official

 

ING settles Belgian money laundering case for €1.6 Million involving ex-EU Commissioner

ING has agreed to pay 1.6 million euros to settle a Belgian money-laundering investigation involving former European Commissioner Didier Reynders, the Brussels public prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.

The settlement follows a complaint filed by Belgium’s central bank in April 2025 against ING’s Belgian branch for possible complicity in money laundering.

According to Belgian newspaper De Morgen, Reynders deposited nearly 700,000 euros in cash into his ING Belgium account between 2008 and 2018.

• EU moves to tighten crackdown on VAT fraud worth up to €32.8 billion a year

That probe focused on 245 cash deposits and 779 e-Lotto transfers, totaling more than 1 million euros. Prosecutors investigated why the bank failed to report suspicious activity by Reynders earlier.

The bank questioned him about the deposits in 2018 but did not file a report until 2023 with the Cel voor Financiële Informatieverwerking, Belgium’s financial intelligence unit that receives suspicious transaction reports from banks.

Ex-Ukrainian draft chief suspected of $1 million corruption

Police have reported a sweeping crackdown on former officials accused of profiting from mobilization

Published 5 May, 2026 11:03 | Updated 5 May, 2026 12:05

A car being evacuated as part of a crackdown on Ukrainian draft officials suspected of corruption. ©  Telegram / National police of Ukraine

A former Ukrainian military official who led a regional conscription office in Odessa is suspected of illegally accumulating around $1 million in wealth while in office.

Corruption, long seen as a systemic issue in Ukraine, has intensified public frustration surrounding the country’s obligatory mobilization campaign, with widespread claims of some officials taking bribes from men seeking to evade military service.

The unnamed suspect’s case was highlighted by the national police on Monday as part of a wider investigation into alleged abuses within the conscription system. The authorities said several serving and former senior draft officials are under scrutiny, with assets believed to be of dubious origin being confiscated.

According to police, property worth more than $2 million that had not been properly declared was targeted. Seized items reportedly include Tesla vehicles, large sums of cash, gold coins, and other valuables. In total, 44 searches were carried out nationwide.

Czech golden coins seized by Ukrainian police in an anti-corruption probe. ©  Telegram / National police of Ukraine

Ukraine depends on compulsory military service to replenish its frontline forces in the conflict with Russia, with numerous videos circulating online showing recruitment officers forcibly detaining men of fighting age. The Defense Ministry is reportedly considering reforms as incidents of resistance, including violent confrontations with officials, become more frequent. Critics argue the military may be attempting to shift public anger onto civilian authorities by assigning enforcement responsibilities to the police.

Bank notes laid out by Ukrainian police in an anti-corruption probe. ©  Telegram / National police of Ukraine

The controversial mobilization system has been linked to organized crime. In a recent high-profile case in Odessa, the authorities said they busted a group of draft officials allegedly operating as a kidnapping ring. The suspects were accused of using insider police information to identify affluent targets, abduct them, and demand ransom for their release, threatening to send them to the front line otherwise.

Politics in Europe > Romania's pro-EU government collapses spectacularly

 

Key NATO member’s pro-EU government falls

Romanian lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to oust Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, toppling his cabinet

Published 5 May, 2026 17:00 | Updated 5 May, 2026 18:05

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan addresses a parliament session ahead of a no confidence vote on May 5, 2026. ©  AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda

Romania’s ruling pro-EU coalition collapsed on Tuesday after Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan was ousted in a no-confidence motion in the country's parliament. The defeat follows months of tensions over austerity measures as Bucharest struggles with the highest budget deficit in the EU.

The motion passed 281-4 after a debate on a joint effort launched by the left-wing Social Democratic Party (PSD), which withdrew from the governing coalition late last month, and the right-wing opposition Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party.

Bolojan called the motion “cynical and artificial” during the parliamentary debate, insisting that he took “urgent and necessary” measures to address the country’s economic crisis.

Critics, however, have argued that after ten months in power, Bolojan and the four-party pro-EU government failed to bring any real improvements for citizens. AUR leader George Simion celebrated the vote, writing on social media that Romanians had only “received taxes, war and poverty” under the government and called for snap elections, which are, however, considered unlikely before 2028.

Why is Romania's politics so unstable

The current government and the four-party coalition were set up in June 2025 by President Nicusor Dan after winning a controversial election rerun that critics argue was orchestrated to keep anti-European forces out of power and appease EU and NATO interest groups.

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Romania hosts one of NATO's largest regional airbases at Mihail Kogalniceanu near the Black Sea which is currently being expanded to become the bloc’s biggest airbase in Europe. Meanwhile, the country has also become a significant market for Western European exports and a source of cheaper labour for EU-based companies.

Annulment of Georgescu’s victory

The initial election round, held in December 2024, was won by independent anti-NATO and anti-EU candidate Calin Georgescu who advocated for restoring Romania’s sovereignty and opposed the EU’s confrontational stance towards Russia.

READ MORE: Romania’s stolen elections were only the start: Inside the EU’s war on democracy

However, Romania’s Constitutional Court, under pressure from Brussels, infamously overturned the result, citing an alleged Russian TikTok interference campaign. While no evidence was ever provided for the accusations, TikTok has testified that it saw no coordinated Russian operation boosting Georgescu but constantly received demands from EU-funded NGOs to remove content supporting the nationalist candidate.

Georgescu was later detained, charged with incitement against the constitutional order, and barred from running in the 2025 rerun. The charges were subsequently reduced to charges of promoting “far-right propaganda.”

The EU’s democratic backsliding

The treatment of Georgescu has been widely criticized, including in the US, where the House Judiciary Committee concluded in February that Brussels had used unproven Russian interference claims to overturn the 2024 election results. The committee’s report described the move as “the most aggressive censorship steps” taken by the EU in recent years.

US Vice President J.D. Vance told the Munich Security Conference in February 2025 that it was “ugly” to see a politician with an alternative viewpoint being blocked from power and accused Europe of backsliding on the most fundamental democratic values.

Georgescu himself has argued that his victory was overturned by the “globalist mafia” because NATO intends to “launch World War III from Romania” and was opposed to his campaign focused on peace.

What happens next

President Dan is expected to begin consultations with party leaders to form a new government as Romania faces an August deadline to complete reforms and unlock around €11 billion in EU funding while a credit rating downgrade remains a risk, according to Politico.

The Islamization of Texas > Civilizational Jihad in Texas High Schools; Muslims can go ahead with EPIC City, near Dallas

 

Texas: Report warns Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim Student Associations taking over high schools

May 4, 2026 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams10 Comments

Last week on Jihad Watch, a German school was highlighted in this story: Germany: ‘The pressure that political Islam is exerting on students is getting bigger and bigger.’ What made this story particularly noteworthy was that Muslim children were reported to be engaging in the process of civilizational jihad in Berlin schools.

This new story out of Texas, revealing how Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim Student Associations are infiltrating American high and junior high schools, is very similar.

Civilization jihad became particularly aggressive in the West after October 7, 2023, on the wings of the globalize the intifada movement.

The attempt to bring about the full subjugation of the West is ramping up to a disturbing level via the hijrah, the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, efforts to cast fear into the hearts of disbelievers at every turn, Islamic indoctrination in the private and public sectors, and more. Also, birth rates in the West are low, but high among the Muslim population.

Photo: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

TAKE ACTION PARENTS: Muslim Brotherhood’s War on America’s Children — The MSA Takeover of U.S. High Schools — Texas Student Fights Back 

by Donna Fodor, RAIR Foundation, May 1, 2026:

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) is now aggressively infiltrating America’s high schools and junior highs, turning taxpayer-funded public schools into recruitment hubs for Sharia and Islamic indoctrination as the next phase of its civilization jihad.

At Wylie East High School in Texas, administrators like Principal Tiffany Doolan openly support MSA dawah operations, including unauthorized booths distributing Qurans, hijabs, and “Understanding Sharia” pamphlets in partnership with ICNA’s Why Islam, while censoring conservative voices, tearing down Republican Student Club posters, and imposing unique restrictions on founder Marco Hunter-Lopez.

In this explosive RAIR Foundation USA interview, brave young patriots Marco Hunter-Lopez, 15, and Leland Saunders, 12, expose the full scope of the Brotherhood’s decades-old plan (detailed in the 1991 Explanatory Memorandum and 1982 “The Project”), the complicity of school officials nationwide, and the urgent need to immediately remove every MSA chapter from U.S. public schools and fire the collaborating educators who are betraying America’s children.

RAIR Foundation USA sat down with two fearless young patriots – Texas high school sophomore Marco Hunter-Lopez, 15, president and founder of the Republican Student Club at Wylie East High School, and Leland Saunders, 12, from Merritt, Texas – to expose the Muslim Brotherhood’s next phase of stealth jihad in America’s public schools:…

See link above for more on this story.

 

Texas: Democrat judge rules state agency must permit 400-acre Islamic EPIC City near Dallas

May 4, 2026 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams14 Comments

Useful idiot leftists such as Amy Meachum are a dime a dozen, and Muslim Brotherhood infiltration is happening on their watch. This is the logical consequence of policies that have enabled illegal, unvetted migration with its full range of obvious dangers — from jihadists to cartels to human trafficking.

Read the following headlines to see why there is nothing benign about EPIC City (the East Plano Islamic Center), which was rebranded The Meadow to sound more palatable:

• Texas: Muslim ‘EPIC City’ rebrands after Governor Abbott accuses group of trying to bring in Sharia
• Louie Gohmert Video: Epic City – Welcome to Sharia USA
• Retired Police Lieutenant Warns: Texas’ EPIC City Is Phase Two of Sharia Enclave That’s Operated for 12 Years
• Texas: Department of Justice announces investigation of Muslim EPIC City
• Plano, Texas gives $1,200,000 to jihad-aligned Islamic charities, including EPIC City
• ‘EPIC City’ and the Hijrah to America
• Texas: ‘EPIC City’ and the Hijrah to America – Part 1
• Texas: ‘EPIC City’ and the Hijrah to America – Part 2

Photo: EPIC City, X Screenshot

Democrat Activist Texas Judge Rules State Agency Must Greenlight 400-Acre Islamic City Near Dallas

by Cassandra MacDonald, Gateway Pundit, May 1, 2026:

Travis County District Court Judge Amy Meachum, a Democrat, ruled on Tuesday that the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) must greenlight the construction of a 400-acre Muslim community near Dallas, Texas.

The development, formerly marketed as EPIC City and now rebranded as The Meadow, will potentially be located in unincorporated areas of Collin and Hunt counties near the small town of Josephine, roughly 40 minutes northeast of Dallas.

The developers are planning to build more than 1,000 homes, apartment buildings, a K–12 Islamic school, a mosque, health clinics, retail stores, assisted living facilities, and other community amenities on the massive site.

Community Capital Partners, the developer founded by members of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), one of North Texas’s largest mosques, sued the TWC after the agency allegedly failed to honor the 2025 settlement and review the project’s updated housing policies…..

It's a bit scary watching Muslim communities grow in size and influence. It will get scarier as they grow, but I wonder how the 10-20% of gun-carrying Texans will react when the bullying starts?