NIGEL FARAGE CALLS ON E.U. TO INVESTIGATE GEORGE SOROS FUNDING, COLLUSION

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Nigel Farage says while Russia is accused of funding
Britain’s ‘Leave’ campaign, financier George Soros’ recent $18 billion
donation to pro-EU charity Open Society has escaped scrutiny. “This is
where the real international political collusion is,” Farage says.

Speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, Farage
told fellow MEPs he believes that when it comes to international
collusion, “we are looking in the wrong place.” He says Soros’ influence
in Brussels is “truly extraordinary,” adding: “I fear we could be
looking at the biggest level of international, political collusion in
history.”

Farage, the leader of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy
Group, believes Soros has spent billions in the EU to undermine the
nation state. “When we are talking about offshore money, when we are
talking about political subversion, when we are talking about collusion,
I wonder if we are looking in the wrong place.

“And I say that because George Soros recently gave Open Society,
which of course campaigns for freedom of movement of people and
supranational structures like the European Union, $18 billion. And his
influence here and in Brussels is truly extraordinary.”

Farage said Open Society boasts it held 42 meetings in 2016 with
the European Commission, and has published a book of reliable “friends”
in the European Parliament. There are 226 names on the list, he says. He
told those MEPs he would be writing to them to establish whether they
had accepted money or help from billionaire investor and liberal
campaigner Soros.

If we’re going to have a debate, and talk about full, political
and financial transparency, well let’s do it. So I shall be writing
today to all 226 of you, asking some pretty fair questions: Have you
ever received funds directly or indirectly from Open Society? How many
of their events have you attended? Could you please give us a list of
all the representatives including George Soros?”

He is also calling on the European Parliament to set up a special
committee to look into the issue. “I say this at a time when the use of
money and the implications it may have had on the Brexit result or the
Trump election has reached virtual hysteria.

“Just last week, the Electoral Commission launched an
investigation to find out whether the Leave campaign took offshore money
or Russian money. This came about as a result of questions asked in the
House of Commons by one Ben Bradshaw, someone linked to an organization
called ‘Open Society.’”

In October, Soros transferred the “bulk of his wealth” to Open
Society, it confirmed. Writing on his website, the financier said: “My
success in the financial markets has given me a greater degree of
independence than most other people. This allows me to stand on
controversial issues: in fact, it obliges me to do so because others
cannot.”
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