Vice-President, former MEP, assistant … Who are the people suspected of being corrupted by Qatar?
The Belgian judiciary is investigating Qatari payments with the aim of influencing the decisions of the European institution. Greek elected Eva Kaili is among the four people imprisoned.
The case is shaking the European sphere. The vice-president of the Greek European Parliament, Eva Kaili, has been charged “Corruption”, Sunday December 11th, in Brussels (Belgium). The Socialist MEP was jailed as part of a Belgian judicial investigation into large payments allegedly made by Qatar to influence decisions within the European establishment. In addition to Eva Kylie, three other people were also jailed yesterday, according to a judicial source in franceinfo. This is what we know about their profile.
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Eva Kylie is the most famous and most visible figure in the issue. The ex-president of television at the age of 44, member of the Greek socialist movement, in the European Parliament since 2014. She is now the vice-president of the institution in January 2022. Subscribe to Grec, she is a presenter of the journal TV on me series the private sector from 2005 to 2007, prior to his election to the national parliament the same year, according to reports. TV5 world.
An elected official charged with developing relations with the Gulf states
His arrest sheds light on his relations with the Gulf states, and in particular Qatar. Eva Kayli was already a member of the parliamentary delegation aimed at developing the EU’s relations with the Arabian Peninsula. She also visited Qatar this year in this context. And she had welcomed, in the presence of the Qatari Minister of Labor, the emirate’s reforms in this sector, as evidenced by Tweet from Christian TudorAmbassador of the European Union to Qatar. Then, on the bike, on the 22nd November, it was estimated that the principality was Pioneer in Employment Law And they judged that the Europeans “She has no moral right to lecture him.”causing an uproar in the assembly.
After her arrest was announced, her party immediately dismissed the elected official, who was in fact the one who fired her “In interruption, merchandise required.” For several months, reports the scientist. This is how Eva Kylie estimated it in 2019 “Benefits for lazy people”, a red line for the centre-left party. His involvement in this affair caused many elected members of Parliament to react. “I’m afraid now I understand…” Pierre Karleskind responded on Twitterreferring to a tweet from November in which this liberal questioned the European Socialists’ initial refusal to vote in favor of a resolution condemning Qatar and FIFA.
Three other people were imprisoned
Among the other three prisoners Francesco Giorgi, parliamentary aide and companion of the Greek member of the European Parliament, as well as former Italian deputy Pier Antonio Panzieri, and a fourth person whose identity has not been disclosed.
Italian Francesco Giorgi, former parliamentary assistant to a member of the Italian Social Democratic Parliament, specializes in human rights and foreign affairs issues in Parliament. He was also in a relationship with Eva Kylie for five years, with whom he has a two-year-old daughter, according to reports TV5 world.
Pier Antonio Panzieri, 67, was an Italian Socialist in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2019. He is the founder of the NGO Fight. The impunity that aims Fighting impunity for human rights violations f “Specialist in relations with the Maghreb and the Middle East”he explains Release. Italian police arrested his ex-wife and daughter in Bergamo, according to what he reported Politico (in English).
Trade union leader Luca Visentini has also been arrested on parole, according to information from the Belgian daily Evening. elected at the helm from the International Trade Union Confederation On November 21, this influential 53-year-old Italian has also been the general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation since 2015.
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