– The Greek financial prosecutor’s office opens an investigation into Eva Kaili
Greece is investigating the MEP, while the President of the European Parliament announced Thursday “wide-ranging” reforms for 2023.
The Athens financial prosecutor’s office has opened a preliminary investigation into the Greek MEP imprisoned in Belgium Eva Kaili for “corruption” and “money laundering”, we learned Thursday from a judicial source.
“Financial prosecutor Nikos Bardakis has ordered the opening of an investigation (on Eva Kaili) for having received bribes and for money laundering”, in cooperation with the Belgian justice which is investigating the ex- Vice-President of the European Parliament at the heart of a resounding corruption scandal allegedly linked to Qatar, this judicial source told AFP.
Greek Minister of Justice Kostas Tsiaras said on Monday that it was obvious that “Greece would help the Belgian authorities” if necessary.
No further details regarding this preliminary investigation were provided by this judicial source.
Assets frozen
As of Monday, the Greek Anti-Money Laundering Authority announced that it would freeze all the assets of the 44-year-old elected socialist whose appearance before Belgian justice was postponed to Wednesday December 22.
Eva Kaili, suspected of having been paid by Doha to defend the interests of the emirate which hosts the World Cup, claims her innocence and her lawyer in Athens, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, affirmed that “she did not know of the existence ” large sums of money found at his Brussels home by Belgian investigators.
Francesco Giorgi, his Italian companion, was kept in preventive detention, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office on Wednesday.
AFP
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