Ex-VP of EU parliament acknowledges corruption link
Date
12/21/2022 6:09:12 AM
(MENAFN) According to a story in Italy's La Repubblica on Tuesday, Eva Kaili, a Greek member and former vice president of the European Union parliament, admitted to Belgian investigators that she gave her father the assignment of concealing a bag full of cash during a Police operation on a Qatari bribery scheme. Kaili has previously denied being a part of the bribery ring, despite the fact that her husband has apparently already acknowledged to accepting payments from Doha.
Documents quoted by the Italian publication and by Le Soir in Belgium state that Kaili admitted to telling her father to take a bag of cash from the home on the evening of a police raid on her home on December 9; this confession was made in writing. Later, while he was leaving a neighboring hotel with several hundred thousand euros, her father was detained.
The article went on to say that Kaili claimed to have informed two other MEPs of the police operation at that point. According to the newspaper's citation of a court document, Kaili "had prior knowledge" of her husband's participation in the bribery plot and was aware that "suitcases full of cash had been moved through her apartment."
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