Eva Kaili

Greece froze all assets owned by European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili following the so-called Qatargate corruption scandal.

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European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili was among those charged in connection with an alleged influence campaign by the Gulf nation.

Panzeri, 67, was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2019. He called for the European Commission to publish its “long-delayed proposal on the creation of an independent EU ethics body, with powers of investigation and enforcement.” He founded [Fight Impunity](https://www.fightimpunity.com/who-we-are) in 2019 and now serves as its president. Giorgi describes himself on LinkedIn as a “policy advisor in the field of Human Rights, EU foreign affairs with an extensive network of contacts with parliamentarians, politicians, EU Institutions, NGO’s, diplomats.” “Any association of the Qatari government with the reported claims is baseless and gravely misinformed.” At the conclusion of that debate, the European Parliament condemned the deaths of thousands of migrant workers during the construction of eight stadiums, an airport expansion, a new metro, many hotels and miles of new roads. watchers and experts noting long-standing concerns about the bloc’s institutions, particularly the European Parliament. “Whatever its final outcome, the Qatar ‘corruption’ scandal has unveiled an inconvenient, and for most Europeans already obvious, truth. The European Parliament has 14 vice presidents and 705 members. Others reportedly caught up in the investigation include the head of a Brussels-based union and an unnamed Italian national. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the response will test “the credibility of Europe.” institutions, this is being talked about as the biggest scandal in recent memory.

The Socialists & Democrats group on Monday expelled European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili with “immediate effect,” after suspending her three days ...

Kaili is shadow rapporteur for the Cyber Resilience Act. Italian MEP Pietro Bartolo stepped down as shadow rapporteur on visa liberalization. Italian MEP Andrea Cozzolino stepped down as S&D coordinator.

Only 11 months after she became a European Parliament vice president, Greek MEP Eva Kaili is at the heart of an alleged corruption scandal involving Qatar ...

The couple have a two-year-old daughter. She was re-elected in 2019. This was despite widespread anger over the Gulf nation's treatment of workers who built stadiums for the international football tournament. But the lure of politics remained and in 2007, she became the youngest PASOK lawmaker in the Greek parliament when she was elected aged 29. Setting her sights on a larger stage, she became a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2014, within its Socialists and Democrats group. Kaili had already raised hackles when she told the parliament in November that Qatar was "a front-runner in labour rights".

They were the 'Brangelina' of the European Parliament: Nobody could foresee the steep fall of one the most-glamorous couples in EU politics.

“She has been distancing herself for months, and her positions and values are incompatible with PASOK,” said the party’s press representative Dimitris Manzos. “The Prime Minister fought for her election as vice-president,” the paper reported. Her Italian partner Giorgi also worked as a sailing instructor in addition to his day job as an assistant to an MEP. The couple’s assets and property, along with those of Kaili’s family in Greece, [have been frozen](https://www.politico.eu/article/greece-eva-kaili-freezes-assets-eu-parliament-vp-family-qatar-corruption/). She studied architecture and civil engineering before moving to the Greek capital and earning a master’s degree in European affairs. Schinas, the commissioner from Greece, has been criticized by MEPs for his tweets on Qatar over recent months. Eva and Mantalena were close, with the two sisters regularly seen together at EU tech conferences or on long shopping sprees in downtown Athens. In one recent tweet, he praised Qatar for “considerable and tangible progress on labour reform,” calling for those reforms to be sustained. Despite losing the vote, she gained a position as news presenter on the Mega channel, where she worked for several years. She served in the Greek parliament from 2007 to 2012 before moving to the Belgian capital in 2014 to become a European parliamentarian with the S&D. Kaili claimed that her grandfather has been assassinated by communists, which was later shown to be completely false. The blonde-haired and blue-eyed native of Thessaloniki got involved in politics early in life, joining PASOK youth at the tender age of 14.

A high-profile scandal has rocked Brussels leading to the arrest of five people, including European Parliament's vice president Eva Kaili.

“This is about the credibility of Europe, so this has to trigger consequences in various areas,” she said. “This will go down in history as one of the greatest and most shocking violations — maybe the largest scandal in European politics, which hopefully is going to trigger some reaction from political leaders… She also delivered a speech in Parliament, praising Qatar’s labour reforms and describing the World Cup host as “good neighbours and partners”. The biggest name to be embroiled in this scandal is European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili. Follow us on [also read] [Opinion](https://www.firstpost.com/category/opinion) [How Europe's rising energy crisis now costs equivalent to Poland’s GDP](https://www.firstpost.com/opinion-news-expert-views-news-analysis-firstpost-viewpoint/how-europes-rising-energy-crisis-now-costs-equivalent-of-polands-gdp-11735321.html) I affirmed during the meeting the strength of our relations with the union’s various branches & our aspirations for further development in all fields. [@EvaKaili], Vice President of the European Parliament, to discuss ways to enhance & develop our relations. However, Doha has denied any involvement in the alleged corruption scandal. “The European Parliament, dear colleagues, is under attack. A high-profile scandal has rocked Brussels leading to the arrest of five people, including European Parliament’s vice president Eva Kaili. Among those charged are Eva Kaili, European Parliament vice president, and her partner Francesco Giorgi. Investigators believe that Qatar has bribed officials to try to influence decisions

The European Parliament's political leaders meet on Tuesday to vote on ending the Greek MEP's term in office, as a Belgian probe widens into alleged ...

They went on to say that the purpose of the search at the European Parliament was "to seize this data". The bloc's top politicians have strongly condemned the corruption scandal that is shaking the EU legislative body. "A total of 20 searches have been carried out since the beginning of the operations, including 19 in private homes and the one in the offices of the European Parliament," the Belgian investigators concluded.

Greek politician 'has nothing to do with bribery from Qatar,' lawyer says.

She was arrested by Belgian police in a series of raids that found €600,000 in a private home, “several hundred thousand euros” in a suitcase nabbed at a Brussels hotel and €150,000 at Kaili’s apartment. The politician’s lawyer plans to file an appeal tomorrow against that decision. [have also been frozen](https://www.politico.eu/article/greece-eva-kaili-freezes-assets-eu-parliament-vp-family-qatar-corruption/) by the Greek anti-money laundering authority, it said Monday.

Breaking her silence through a lawyer's statement, vice-pesident Eva Kaili, a Greek MEP and one of four people arrested and charged in Belgium at the weekend, ...

There were claims of large sums of money being found in a suitcase in a Brussels hotel room as well as in a flat. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen called the accusations of corruption “very serious” and called for a new ethics body to be established to oversee the EU parliament. Belgian police on Tuesday showed 1.5 million euros (£1.3m) it had seized as part of their raids. “Any association of the Qatari government with the reported claims is baseless and gravely misinformed,” a Doha official said at the weekend. “She has nothing to do with financing from Qatar, nothing – explicitly and unequivocally. [money laundering](/topic/money-laundering) and [corruption](/topic/corruption) scandal that has rocked the European Union has denied receiving money from a Gulf State.

Eva Kaili, one of four suspects, is stripped of her role as vice president of the European Parliament.

Ms Metsola said ahead of the vote to strip Ms Kaili of her leading role at the Parliament that "European democracy is under attack and our free and democratic societies are under attack". Addressing a debate in the Parliament on Tuesday, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said there was an initial presumption of innocence but this was now a serious criminal investigation: "To anyone accepting payoffs kickbacks, bribes, I say shame on you... Since Friday, the IT resources of 10 parliamentary employees have been "frozen" to prevent the disappearance of data necessary for the investigation. A recommendation to allow visa-free travel to the EU for Qataris was set to be voted on by MEPs this week, but has now been shelved. Parliament, sitting in Strasbourg, voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to strip Ms Kaili of her role as vice-president. He said later he had been able to answer all questions put to him. The other suspect, according to Italian news agency Ansa, is Niccolò Figa-Talamanca. Former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, who now runs human rights group Fight Impunity, is also among the four, sources say. His wife and daughter were also reportedly arrested. Sources said the €150,000 was found at Ms Kaili's flat. They will appear before a pre-trial court on Wednesday. There was uncontested evidence, he added in a later statement, that "every move, contact and statement made by Eva Kaili regarding Qatar was made in execution and application of the official policy of the European Union".

The European Parliament on Tuesday ousted a lawmaker who was arrested over the weekend in an investigation into alleged bribes by Qatar.

Eva Kaili, from Greece, has served as a member of the European Parliament since 2014. The State of Qatar works through institution-to-institution engagement and operates in full compliance with international laws and regulations." Four of them, including a Member of the European Parliament, have been placed under arrest. Corruption cannot pay and we have played our part in ensuring these plans could not materialise." A Qatari official told CNBC Monday: "The State of Qatar categorically rejects any attempts to associate it with accusations of misconduct. "To this date, six individuals have been arrested in this case.

Parliament's senior leaders agree to remove Eva Kaili, a decision that will later be voted on by all 705 MEPs.

EU leaders are expected to discuss the scandal when they meet the European parliament president, Roberta Metsola, on Thursday at a regular summit in Brussels. “We also have to make sure that any attempt to attack our democracy has consequences. The amendment said Qatar wasn’t so strict on human rights and homosexuality [...] things that would have watered down the report.” “We also agreed to a full inquiry into the matter and taking further preventative measures.” Separately, Spanish liberal MEP José Ramón Bauzá announced he was suspending the EU-Qatar friendship group. “Her position is she is innocent.

Greek MEP Eva Kaili was among four people arrested and charged by investigators in Belgium over the bribery and corruption scandal. Police searched 19 homes ...

They bully them and they accuse everyone that talks to them or engages (with them) of corruption." "They committed to a vision by choice and they opened to the world. And all the smoke signals point to a direct link between Kaili and Qatar. Greek MEP Eva Kaili was among four people arrested and charged by investigators in Belgium over the bribery and corruption scandal. Later today, the European Parliament will hold a debate on the suspicions of corruption "from Qatar”" (note that wording: "from Qatar" rather than "in Qatar" - this is about Qatari influence outside the country) as well as the need for more transparency in European institutions. The vote to sack Eva Kaili was a very rare sign of (near) unity in the European Parliament.

The European Parliament stripped Greek lawmaker Eva Kaili of her senior assembly post on Tuesday over allegations that World Cup host Qatar had bribed her ...

Belgian prosecutors said they had suspected for more than four months that a Gulf state was trying to buy influence in Brussels. Several EU states including Germany, said the 27-nation union’s credibility was at stake. Belgian police searched 19 homes and the offices of the parliament from Friday to Monday as part of their investigation and seized computers, mobile phones and cash, some of it found in a suitcase in a hotel room. The case, in which police discovered stacks of cash, casts a shadow over the European Parliament which seeks to be a moral compass, criticising global rights abuses and taking EU governments to task over any hint of impropriety. [@Europarl_EN]will vote on the unanimous proposal of the Conference of Presidents to bring to an end the term of office of Vice-President Eva Kaili. [Kaili](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/12/12/european-parliament-corruption-scandal-the-fall-of-eva-kaili-greek-socialist-mep_6007452_4.html), one of 14 vice presidents in the parliament, was among four people [arrested](https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20221210-belgium-makes-eu-parliament-arrests-in-qatar-corruption-investigation) and charged in Belgium over the scandal that has triggered outrage in Brussels and risks damaging the European Union’s image.

The European Parliament has officially unseated Greek socialist Eva Kaili as vice-president of the European Parliament in a decision that secured 625 votes ...

The European Parliament removed Greek MEP Eva Kaili as a vice president of the assembly on Tuesday after she was accused of accepting bribes from Qatar in ...

Eva Kaili is a Greek political wonder-kid who spent time as a TV presenter before ending up at the EU parliament in Brussels where she is now embroiled in a ...

She is thought to be in jail at the moment. How did she rise to the top of the pile in Brussels? She has nothing to do with Qatar's bribes.' The backlash has been swift. I have no idea if money was found or how much was found.' Qatar has denied any involvement in European corruption. Asked if any cash was found at Kaili's home, Dimitrakopoulos said: 'I am not confirming or denying. In return for the cash and gifts - which Qatar vehemently denies giving - Ms Kaili is accused of becoming a vocal defender of Doha in parliament. Ms Kaili is aligned to the political left, and is pictured here attending a pre-election party for her Greek socialist party in 2015, in Athens A Greek lawmaker from 2007 until 2012, she became the youngest from her party to be elected to Brussels in 2014 Eva Kaili is a native of Thessaloniki, a Greek city on the Aegean Sea, where she has been involved in politics since the age of 14 She went to university and studied architecture and civil engineering before moving to the Greek capital and earning a master's degree in European affairs.

The EU's parliament has removed Vice-President Eva Kaili over allegations of receiving cash and gifts from Qatar in exchange for influencing decisions.

The vote was taken according to Article 21 of Parliament's rules of procedure and follows ongoing investigations in Belgium involving some members and staff of the European Parliament. She was ousted by a double majority of two-thirds of the votes cast and a majority of members composing the Parliament. Kaili was one of the 14 vice presidents in the Parliament and has denied any wrongdoing, as has Qatar.