What exactly happened there?

Yeah, so it's in the immediate aftermath, actually, of his election to be the leader of the party, the president of the party.

There was a big congress in Rotterdam, thousands of delegates of the EPP gathering, uh, in Rotterdam in a big conference room, where indeed, um, Manfred Weber first got elected and then presented, um, Thanassis Bakogias as his secretary general.

So Thanassis Bakogias has worked for 20 years for, uh, the Greek prime minister, um, and was proposed by Manfred Weber as the secretary general, meaning that he is the person who has the daily leadership of the party, who signs the contracts, makes the, the day-to-day management decisions.

And, um, and soon after, um, the party hired, uh, two consultants, Giorgos Zagridis and, um, Eric Parks, who are also from Greece and who also, as Bakogias, had ties with Greece's ruling party, uh, Nea Dimokratia, which is the, the party of Prime Minister, um, Mitsotakis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Greece.

Um, and what our investigation found is that in less than six months, these two consultants were paid 570,000 euros at least, um, and probably even up to 800,000 euros, which are very big amounts.

We're seeing more or less every month payments of, of more than 50,000 for each.

And does it say something about the wider modus operandi of the party itself for you?