Belgian police searched the Brussels headquarters of Chinese tech company Huawei and several other locations in a corruption probe amid fresh allegations involving European Parliament officials, with several arrests made in the case,

Belgian police on Thursday raided several addresses in the country as part of a probe into alleged corruption "under the guise of commercial lobbying", prosecutors said. At the heart of the alleged corruption is an ex-parliamentary assistant who was employed at the time as Huawei's EU public affairs director,

The raids come more than two years after the ‘Qatargate’ scandal, in which several European lawmakers were accused of accepting payments to promote the interests of Qatar and Morocco. About 100 office