Two European newspapers reveal that the former vice-president of the European Parliament would have instructed her father to hide money.
The “Qatargate” revelations continue. The Gulf country is suspected of having offered financial compensation in exchange for support from certain European officials. Indicted for belonging to a criminal organization, corruption and organized money laundering, Eva Kaili, former vice-president of the European Parliament, had the mission of developing relations between the EU and the Arab peninsula. She was heard by Belgian investigators and allegedly confessed to having asked her father to hide money, according to a document consulted by The evening and La Repubblica .
The father, arrested the day of the extensive arrest by the Belgian services, took refuge at the Sofitel hotel in Brussels with a suitcase full of cash. “The accused admits having instructed her father to hide the money“, writes the investigating judge Claise in the arrest warrant issued against the Greek MEP on December 9. “She declares that she knew in the past the activity of her husband (Francesco Giorgi, Editor’s note) with Pier Antonio Panzeri (a former MEP arrested the same day, editor’s note) and that suitcases of banknotes passed through his apartment“.
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Eva Kaili”tried to warn Pier Antonio Panzeri but also two MEPs quoted in this investigation“, assures the mandate. The latter, arrested with 600,000 euros in cash in his apartment, would have partially acknowledged his involvement in this affair but denounced a Belgian MEP: Marc Tarabella. “He denounces MEP Marc Tarabella as beneficiary of gifts from Qatar“. The Belgian, meanwhile, denies any influence and gifts received by Qatar.
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