“Members of the European Parliament receive money from American military companies,” the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed on Tuesday Maria Zakharova on her Telegram channel citing research by the EUObsever website.

“Corruption in the European Parliament thrives. EUObserver journalists discovered that some MEPs received pensions from, for example, US companies Raytheon, Honeywell International and Textron Inc – military companies that develop, produce and sell, among other things, cluster bombs,” he said.

“Notably, the focus is on the American military-industrial complex (not even the European one), which is the embodiment of the term ‘merchants of death.’ Moreover, as it has been shown, MEPs are financed with money from the sale of precisely the types of weapons that EU member states seek to ban. For some reason they don’t refuse to take the money,” added Zakharova as reported by TASS.

The Russian official also said MEPs invested their pension savings in oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell after another oil spill from its pipeline. “How about ‘going green’ and preserving nature?” There is a very special story about it. MEP Jutta Paulus (Germany) lobbies directly for the interests of the Boston NGO Clean Air Task Force. When drafting legislative amendments, she dutifully and without hesitation used the documents prepared by this organization,” Zakharova said.