A disgraced European MEP is facing jail after being secretly filmed agreeing to amend legislation in the European parliament in exchange for cash.
Ernst Strasser left the parliament last year after being embroiled in the cash-for-amendments scandal. He was one of three MEPs who agreed to table amendments for undercover Sunday Times reporters posing as lobbyists.
He was charged with corruption on Thursday by prosecutors in Austria, his home country, after a 15-month investigation spanning five countries, in which authorities questioned 90 people.
Strasser, a 56-year-old former interior minister, has denied any wrongdoing. The video footage of meetings between Strasser and the reporters will be used as evidence by the specialist team of Austrian corruption prosecutors.
It shows Strasser claiming that he has earned almost