Money smuggled through apartment
Eva Kaili apparently makes a partial confession
12/20/2022, 12:38 p.m
Will there be further movement in the corruption scandal in the EU Parliament? According to media reports, the deposed Vice President, Kaili, made a partial confession. She therefore asked her father to make money disappear. Her partner and a parliamentarian are said to have smuggled it through her apartment beforehand.
According to media reports, the arrested former Vice President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili made a partial confession in the EU corruption scandal. As the daily newspapers “Le Soir” and “La Repubblica” reported, citing investigation documents, the 44-year-old Greek woman admitted, among other things, that she had instructed her father to hide large amounts of cash before she was arrested. “She states that she knew in the past about her partner’s activities with Mr. Panzeri and that suitcases with money were smuggled through her apartment,” the investigating judge is also quoted as saying from the documents.
Kaili is currently in custody in Belgium, along with her partner and former Italian MEP Antonio Panzeri. Her father was arrested by investigators on December 9 trying to hide a suitcase full of cash in a Brussels hotel after Kaili warned him about a large-scale operation by Belgian investigators. Kaili also tried to warn two MEPs, the two newspapers write.
When asked by Le Soir and La Repubblica, her lawyer André Risopoulos said he was personally outraged that they had access to the documents. He did not confirm that the testimony was a partial confession.