The Financial Prosecutor’s Office of Greece has ordered the opening of an investigation against the former vice-president of the European Parliament Eva Kaili for alleged bribery and money laundering, a new front that adds to the suspicions that already weigh on her in Belgium.
The Greek Public Prosecutor’s Office will therefore contact the Belgian authorities to obtain information and check whether offenses chargeable under the Greek Criminal Code have been committed, reports ERT television channel.
The process would only go ahead if Kaili is not prosecuted in Belgium on equivalent charges, according to sources quoted by the newspaper ‘Kathimerini’. In the Belgian case, she is charged with membership of a criminal organization, money laundering and corruption.
Kaili was arrested last week as an alleged member of a bribery scheme from Qatar and is remanded in custody – at least until she appears in court in Brussels on December 22. Police have found 1.5 million euros in cash at her home and that of former Italian MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri.
