Her first steps Eva Kylie following the arrest of her husband Francesco Giorgi, but also what she said in her statement to the Belgian police, which she highlights in her current publication in Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

The MEP, according to the publication, was asked to answer three main questions by the police interrogating her: who owned the money, why it was found in her house and why she asked her father to hide it when he found out about the kidnapping of George. to arrest.

As reported, the line of defense of the former vice-president of the European Parliament is based on the assertion that what happened was the result of the dark machinations of Antonio Panzeri, along with Giorgi, his partner and her wife, while she herself did not know anything. .

“I know that my husband was hiding something for his former boss Antonio Panzeri and possibly for his current boss Andrea Coccolino. However, I don’t know what it was or why he kept it. I don’t think that after what happened, I won’t trust anyone, ”Eva Kylie told investigators.

Phone call to her father

“After the arrest of my partner, I went to his office. I searched his belongings to find out why he was arrested,” Ms Kaili said, according to the Italian publication.

After finding a suitcase with money, as well as a computer and a phone, she stated that her first concern was her daughter, so she called her father, who was with the baby. “I asked him to come and take the suitcase. (…) It was a suitcase for Puncheri, which her husband kept at home. (…) I knew that my father would go to my daughter because I put the bottle in the suitcase he took.”

Immediately after that, according to the publication, Eva Kylie tried to contact Panzeri himself and his friends: “At first I tried to call Panzeri (who only speaks Italian), but could not find him, so I tried to contact Mark Tarabella and Maria. Arena. They didn’t know why Pancheri didn’t answer the phone.”

Suitcases with money

After her testimony, she made a confession: “I opened the suitcase and the safe. I knew Georgie had something in store for Panzeri, and maybe Coccolino.”

According to Mrs. Kylie, the suitcase belonged to Puncheri. In fact, in the same testimony, he refers to another bag of money: “That was what Georgy borrowed for real estate.” The couple just bought an apartment with a loan in the name of Eva Kylie, who pays rent and work, and the cash “was my partner’s contribution.” The bag contained “50 or 60 thousand euros, I don’t know exactly why I’m not going to investigate him.”

She insisted that she “never thought about the origin of this money”, except in cases where the case was solved, and she was forced to assess the presence of this money in hindsight. Only then did he realize that no, it wasn’t “normal”.

“George couldn’t say no”

The MEP then refers to the difficulties her husband faces in managing money. “Francesco doesn’t have much money because he can’t pay all the expenses. He is also younger than me. I know that he sometimes borrows from his parents, maybe from Antonio, but I don’t know what (…) There are things that he wanted, but could not afford.”

According to the Italian newspaper, Ms. Kylie also said: “I didn’t always trust (Georgie’s) relationship with Panzeri and Coccolino. Francesco had a moral obligation to Antonio and Andrea, but it was too much. Whenever others asked him for something, he felt obligated to answer and make himself available to them. He couldn’t say no. Maybe I should have said something because I’m older than Francesco. He is very affable, very kind to his friends in general.”

Qatar

Kylie also focused, according to the Italian newspaper, on her work in Brussels and Strasbourg as a former vice-president of the European Parliament and how this affects the interests of the emirate. “Every VP has a portfolio. Mine was in the Middle East, 15 countries.”

According to him, he received a request for parliamentary review of the Gulf countries, including Qatar, “because they supply gas to the EU” and also because they “comply with regulatory requirements” in the issue of visas.

“Even the EU foreign affairs committee insisted that this be done as soon as possible,” said Eva Kylie, claiming that everyone told her to resolve the matter.

“The commission put pressure on this issue, and I agreed. The decision will be made at the end of November. This period coincided with a very intense debate about human rights. I think that’s why there was confusion between Panchery’s mission on human rights and my mission on visas and energy.”

George: “Eva knew about the amounts and origin, but she is not part of the network”

Near, Belgian Le Soir also makes revelationsin a publication titled “Pancheri’s system at the heart of research”.

“It all started in 2018. Mr. Pancheri was then President of the Human Rights Committee of the European Parliament (…) The former President of the National Human Rights Commission (Qatar, Ali Ben Shameek Al Marri, current Minister of Labour) then developed the idea of ​​lobbying. Mr Puncheri agreed to work for the Qataris. So, according to Francesco Giorgi, a former assistant to Pier Antonio Panzeri, investigators, it all started in the corruption case, which has been shaking the European Parliament for almost three weeks now.

According to Mr. Giorgi, adds the publication, when Pier Antonio Panzeri was still a member of the European Parliament, he began to work in favor of the Qatari envoys.

“At the beginning of 2019, cooperation began. We have set amounts, which I find difficult to remember, for our respective interventions. It was cash. Pier Antonio Pancheri assures the investigator that the agreement with Qatar dates back to October or November 2019, after his term as an MEP expired. The agreement with Morocco, which “started after 2019”, “on the condition that we work to avoid resolutions against the country, and in return we receive 50,000 euros”, details the agreement, which is often called “Morocco’s friend”. corridors of the European Parliament. This confirms the role of the current Ambassador of Morocco to Poland, Amderrahim Atmoun.

According to Francesco Giorgi, in just a few months the system became more professional with the creation of the non-profit organization Fighting Impunity in Brussels. Because “we needed to find a clean system that didn’t raise red flags,” he says. Air tickets to Doha will also be delivered, Giorgi continues, through Antonio Pantseri to relatives, in particular the accountant and political advisers. However, according to Francesco Giorgi, not a single member of parliament benefited from a full stay on the peninsula during the World Cup, Suar adds.

Lobbying, he continues, was conducted both in favor of Morocco and Mauritania: “As for Mauritania, they have image problems. They hired Mr. Pancheri to find out how to do it (…) As for my remuneration, I rented my apartment in Rue Tulip to the Ambassador of Mauritania. The rent was my estimate. Mr Panzeri received 25,000 euros in cash. However, with regard to the evidence in question, the newspaper states that it does not indicate any illegality and that it (Suar) could not cross-examine her.

As for Ms. Kylie, the newspaper quoted Francesco Giorgi as saying that “Eva obviously knew the amount of money and the source since we live together, but she is not part of the network,” adding that she asked him several times. stop “because it put her at risk in connection with her duties.”

At the same time, Eva Kylie, continuing the auditioned article, believes she was duped.

“I didn’t like how she blindly trusted Antonio” (Panzeri), she says of her partner, according to Suar. The Greek MEP, who was suspended from his position as MEP vice president, explains, according to the newspaper, that she tried to separate her work from that of Francesco Giorgi and wanted to distance herself from Pancheri, especially since the latter “left a suitcase at home. I did not see the contents, but I knew what is it, what is inside…”

Asked about the stacks of banknotes, she simply admits that she never “thought about the origin of this money”, thinking that perhaps the money was entrusted by the governments of Mr. Pancheri’s NGOs to carry out humanitarian rescue operations (humanitarian actions). “I’m at a point where I don’t recognize anyone else, not even my own partner,” concludes Ms. Kylie, according to Soiree, while being described as “visibly upset.”

with information from La Repubblica, Le Soir, APE-MPE