7 minutes agoEuropean Parliament's Deputy Speaker Arrested for Corruption
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(4 years ago)Belgian police have arrested Greek Socialist Euro-deputet Eva Kaili, one of the European Parliament's deputy speakers, in Brussels on Friday evening, reports foreign media. Her arrest comes after an investigation by Belgian authorities over corruption charges involving Qatar, host to the World Cup. The Eurodeput is being questioned as the husband [...]
Her arrest comes after an investigation by Belgian authorities over corruption charges involving Qatar, host to the World Cup.
The Eurodeput is being questioned as her husband, Francesco Giorgi, was arrested on Friday morning. Qatar is accused of targeting officials “with an important political position and/or strategic” in Parliament. Police raids have been conducted in 16 homes and another 600,000 euros have been confiscated.
For months, Belgian investigators “They suspected that a Gulf country was influencing European Parliament's financial and political decisions by paying substantial sums of money or offering important gifts to third parties with a political position or a significant strategic position” inside this organ.
Kyle had visited Qatar in early November, and later, speaking to the European Parliament, he had named the country concrete as <x0->pioneer” on the job relations issue, prompting different reactions. The other detainees are ex-Deputate of S&D, Pierre-Antonio Panzer, newly elected Secretary-General of the International Trade Unions Conference (Iccup) Luca Visentini, and Mrs. Kyle's husband, Francesco Giorgi. /abcnews. al
