Eva Kaili: EU politician makes partial confession in corruption scandal

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EU politician Kaili makes a partial confession in the corruption scandal

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Kaili is currently in custody in Belgium

Kaili is currently in custody in Belgium

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According to media reports, Eva Kaili wasn’t as clueless about the cash found in her apartment as she previously claimed. The investigation files show that the arrested former Vice President of the European Parliament made a partial confession.

DAccording to media reports, the arrested former Vice President of the European Parliament, Eva Kaili, made a partial confession in the EU corruption scandal. Like the daily newspapers “Le Soir” and “La Republica” on Tuesday, citing investigative documents, the 44-year-old Greek woman admitted, among other things, to having instructed her father to hide large amounts of cash before her arrest. “She states that she knew about her husband’s activities with Mr. Panzeri in the past and that suitcases with money were smuggled through her apartment,” the investigating judge is also quoted from the documents.

Kaili is currently in custody in Belgium, along with her partner and former Italian MEP Antonio Panzeri. Her father was arrested by investigators on December 9 trying to hide a suitcase full of cash in a Brussels hotel after Kaili warned him about a large-scale operation by Belgian investigators. Kaili also tried to warn two MEPs, the two newspapers write.

When asked by Le Soir and La Repubblica, her lawyer André Risopoulos said he was personally outraged that they had access to the documents. He did not confirm that the testimony was a partial confession.

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ATHENS, GREECE - NOVEMBER 04: Eva Kaili of the Social Democrats party PASOK, who announced yesterday that she is not giving her vote in support of Prime Minister George Papandreou, looks on as the confidence vote takes place in the Greek parliament on November 04, 2011 in Athens, Greece. A positive end of the confidence vote is key to Greece receiving a financial aid package worth 130 billion euros from the EU Without this deal sources say Greece will run out of money by the middle of December. (Photo by Vladimir Rys/Getty Images)

The EU Parliament has been rocked by a corruption scandal for over a week. Several suspects were arrested, with at least 1.5 million euros in cash found. The investigations initiated by the Belgian public prosecutor’s office are aimed in particular at Kaili, who has since been deposed as EU Vice President of Parliament. She is suspected of having been paid by Qatar to defend the interests of the Gulf state.

Italian MP Panzeri is considered one of the central figures in the scandal. There is a European arrest warrant against his wife, she will be extradited to Belgium, as several Italian media reported late Monday evening. Law enforcement charged her with corruption, money laundering and involvement in a criminal organization. So far she has been under house arrest with her daughter, whose extradition the court will decide on Tuesday.

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