Qatargate has resurfaced, and this time it’s knocking on the ruling party’s door. Belgian prosecutors issued a European arrest warrant for Dimitris Avramopoulos, the former EU migration commissioner who now sits as a New Democracy MP, over his role in Fight Impunity, the NGO at the center of the scandal. Avramopoulos, who denies everything, faces a possible charge of participating in a criminal organization.

He twice ignored Belgian summonses to explain himself, which led authorities to issue the warrant. In a recent interview he doubled down, calling the affair “a load of rubbish,” dismissing the Belgian authorities as “some policemen,” and insisting his €5,000-a-month fee was declared, taxed and approved by Brussels. He claimed to have been cleared in 2022, an assertion the Commission flatly disputes, saying it ran routine checks, not an investigation. He also accused Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis of holding the warrant “in a drawer for three days,” and reportedly snapped that he would “not answer to any bastard.”

The government, less than thrilled, has scrambled to look even-handed, stressing the warrant was forwarded within 24 hours and that no one gets special treatment. On Thursday night Avramopoulos asked the Supreme Court to quash it.