Eva Kaili has been arrested for her alleged involvement in the European Parliament corruption case linked to Qatar. Likewise, she has been suspended from the functions of her vice president.
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The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has held under arrest and has accused this Sunday the vice president of the institution Eva Kaili for the crimes of participation in a criminal organization, money laundering and corruption for the alleged case of corruption in the European Parliament linked to Qatar that broke out last Friday and is still open.
The Belgian Prosecutor’s Office suspects that Qatar has paid “large amounts of money” and offered “significant gifts” to people who have a “strategic political position” within the European Parliament, to influence their decisions.
Eva Kaili has been suspended from her duties in the position of vice-president of the European Parliament.
In addition to the social democrat Kaili, the Belgian judge investigating the scandal in the European Parliament He has also been charged with the same crimes his colleague and adviser in the European Parliament Francesco Giorgi, a Brussels lobbyist and the former Italian Social Democrat MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri. By contrast, Kaili’s father, who was caught red-handed by police on Friday while trying to escape with bags full of banknotes, and the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, Italian Luca Visentini They have been released with charges.
The case is still open
The investigation of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which has been behind the case for several months, continues open with more arrests and searches. Maria Colleoni and Silvia Panzeri, the wife and daughter respectively of the former MEP detained in Brussels have been arrested, as confirmed yesterday by a court in Brescia (Italy). Likewise, the police searched last night the home of another MEP, the Belgian Social Democrat Marc Tarabella.
Source: Eitb
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