The call of Greek MEP Eva Kaili to apologize will follow today's arrests in Brussels, and the information published in Le Soir about the politician's involvement in the European Parliament corruption scandal.
She was removed from PASOK-KINAL by decision of the party's president Nikos Androulakis, following the above developments.
Note that four people, including a former MEP, were arrested today in Brussels[/B] as part of an investigation by a financial judge into suspected bribery from a "Gulf country" within the European Parliament, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said.
The country was not named by the prosecutor's office. According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, Qatari officials had tried to bribe an elected Italian socialist who was an MEP from 2004 to 2019. The investigation concerns, among other things, acts of "corruption" and "money laundering" within an organised gang, according to the prosecutor's press release.
For months, Belgian investigators "suspected that a Gulf country was influencing the financial and political decisions of the European Parliament by paying substantial sums of money or offering significant gifts to third parties with political standing and/or an important strategic position" within that institution.
Source: ertnews.gr
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