The former vice president of the European Parliament accused in the bribery plot linked to Qatar and Morocco, Eva Kaili, arrived this Friday at her home next to the headquarters of the European Parliament to carry out her house arrest with an electronic bracelet after leaving prison.
The Greek politician arrived at her home after 11 a.m. on Friday in a black Mercedes and rolled down the window with a smile to say that she was “very happy” to be close to her almost two-year-old daughter again, who I was waiting in the apartment.
“The fight continues with determination together with my lawyers. We will talk soon,” he said before entering the building.
The justice system agreed last Wednesday for the Greek MEP to change her pretrial detention regime in jail for house arrest with an electronic bracelet and her lawyer, Sven Mary, advanced that this step would possibly take effect this Friday, as has happened.
The former Italian Social Democrat MEP and alleged ringleader of the plot, Pier Antonio Panzeri, also obtained the electronic bracelet regime eight days ago, while Kailí’s partner and former Panzeri assistant, Francesco Giorgi, achieved it on February 23, and the implicated Belgian socialist MEP, Marc Tarabella, was left in the same situation last Tuesday.
Panzeri and Giorgi, like Kailí, had been arrested in several raids in Belgium on December 9, 2022, while Tarabella was not arrested until February for enjoying parliamentary immunity until then.
Despite also enjoying parliamentary immunity, Kailí was arrested on the December night when the bribery scandal broke out and subsequently charged with alleged crimes of corruption and money laundering, because the authorities considered that she was committing a flagrant crime.
Investigators found hundreds of thousands of euros in cash at his home and in a suitcase with which his father was caught fleeing a hotel in the Belgian capital.
The Greek Social Democratic politician had repeatedly requested her release and had denounced degrading treatment in prison, particularly in a few days in January in which she was held incommunicado while, according to her defense suspicions, the Prosecutor’s Office agreed with Panzeri, 67 years old.
The supposed “mastermind” of the corrupt scheme agreed to collaborate with the Justice as “repentant” to obtain a reduction in the future sentence, in exchange for his confession and to point out others involved and explain the operation of the plot.
In addition, another Italian Social Democratic MEP whose parliamentary immunity was also withdrawn so that justice could investigate him, Andrea Cozzolino, is under house arrest in Naples, in a situation similar to that of Panzeri’s accountant, Monica Rossana Bellini.
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