Greek MEP to remain in custody for a month Eva Kylie. This was decided by the members of the Judicial Council, to whom Ms. Kylie apologized yesterday morning for alleged allegations of corruption and money laundering. It is reported that she asked to be released with a “bracelet”, but her request was not accepted. The court decided to extend her detention. If he appeals within 24 hours, he will appear before the Court of Appeal within 15 days.

As Eva Kaylie’s lawyer Michalis Dimitrakopoulos said earlier in his statements on television, the atmosphere for the Greek MEP was negative from the very beginning, as the prosecutor considered Ms. Kaylie a suspect in flight from the country and even advanced as an argument that his intelligence Qatar they will send spies to kidnap her and take her to their country. In new statements to Mega after the announcement of the decision, he claimed that during the court session the prosecutor did not formulate legal arguments capable of justifying the pre-trial detention, and explained the decision with political motives.

Apology

Eva Kylie was brought early yesterday morning to the Brussels courthouse from Aren prison, where she is being held, accompanied by Greek-born lawyer Andre Risopoulos and criminologist Michalis Dimitrakopoulos. Her apology was short, only an hour and a half. “We have expressed all our arguments. Ms. Kylie was never bribed, she is innocent,” Mr. Dimitrakopoulos repeated to dozens of journalists who were waiting outside the courtroom. Mr. André Risopoulos added that “Eva Kylie is actively cooperating with the investigation of the judiciary”, while expressing dissatisfaction with the fact that elements of the case have already been published in the press. According to him, he has not yet seen such a violation of the confidentiality of the process.

Eva Kylie was arrested on the morning of December 9, and two days later she was prosecuted for corruption and money laundering. The same thing happened to her three co-defendants: her partner Francesco Giorgi, Italian former MEP Antonio Panzeri and lobbyist Nicolo Talamanca. The latter three apologized last Wednesday, with Georgie reportedly pleading guilty in an attempt to “exonerate” his partner. Eva Kylie, on the other hand, asked for and won a reprieve, trying to change her position and present herself as a victim of her Italian partner.

Her lawyer spoke of the “negative climate” and concerns raised by Belgian prosecutors about Kylie’s kidnapping by Qatari agents.

Pervasive corruption

Speaking to Stern magazine, Germany’s Greens MEP Nico Zemsroth tried to explain where the funding scandal that rocked the European Parliament came from. “Corruption is endemic,” he said. “Would Eva Kylie do something like this if she thought she and her partner would end up in jail? Their child is not even two years old, no one risks this. He thought that he would not be caught, ”said the German MEP. “This case is proof to me that there is a culture of corruption, a culture in which corruption usually has no consequences, so it becomes normal. Surely Kylie didn’t think “Now I’ve done something completely crazy,” he appreciated.

Italian press

The courage of the Belgian authorities in the case of corruption in the European Parliament is being scathingly commented in Italy, where Meloni’s conservative government in Georgia has just changed the law to help those convicted of corruption. “At a time when investigations are underway in the offices of our MEPs in Brussels, a decree has been passed in the Italian Senate to make life easier for those who have been convicted of crimes against public administration,” the Italian newspaper notes. Fatto Cutidiano. Meloni’s government is repealing a 2019 Conte government law that makes many corruption offenses punishable by jail time.

The same newspaper published extensive excerpts from Kylie’s statement to the Belgian prosecutor’s office. In the published excerpts, Kylie seems to claim that the money was kept by former MEP Panzeri, through her partner Francesco Giorgi, in her home because she was immune. Kylie reportedly called Georgie “unable to say no”, which she attributed to his young age (35).

Plot on Paros

As part of the money laundering investigations for MEP Eva Kaili, a seven-acre plot of land on the island of Paros, acquired by Eva Kaili and her husband Francesco Giorgi, was confiscated by the competent authority last summer. The undertaking was made because, as indicated in an accompanying document signed by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Charalambos Vourliotis and addressed to the Financial Prosecutor, there are suspicions that the purchase in question may hide money laundering. At the same time, the joint account of Eva Kylie and her husband was also frozen, through which money was transferred to purchase the property in question. However, through his Greek lawyer, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, the MEP stated a few days ago, when questioned, that the purchase of property in Paros was legal in every respect, and the money for it was justified by her fees and income.