The Vice-President of the EP charged with money laundering and corruption

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Eva Kaili has been arrested for her alleged involvement in the European Parliament corruption case linked to Qatar. Likewise, she has been suspended from her positions as Vice President.

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The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has made arrests and this Sunday accused the vice president of the institution Eva Kaili of participation in a criminal organization, money laundering and corruption for the alleged corruption case in the European Parliament linked to Qatar, which broke out last Friday and is still ongoing.

The Belgian prosecutor’s office suspects that Qatar has paid “large sums” 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 position as 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 former Italian Social Democratic MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri. Kaili’s father, on the other hand, who was caught red-handed by the police on Friday when he tried to escape with bags full of banknotes, and the Secretary General of the International Trade Union Confederation, Italian Luca Visentini They have been released on charges.

The case is still open

The investigation of the federal prosecutor’s office, which has been behind the case for several months, opens 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). Similarly, last night police searched the home of another MEP, Belgian Social Democrat Marc Tarabella.

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Source: EITB

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