Socialist Greek MEP Eva Kaili, accused in a corruption case involving alleged sums of money offered by Qatar and Morocco to European officials and officials, “knew nothing about the money found in her home” during searches by Belgian police. , and in the European Parliament (EP) she “always voted according to her conscience”, said her lawyer Michalis Dimitrakopoulos in an interview published on Tuesday by the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, as quoted by the EFE agency.

PE Vice-President Eva Kylie, detained in a corruption casePhoto: Buissin/EUC / Zuma Press / Profimedia

“Eva Kylie is going through a nightmare in prison, a disaster, because she is innocent. The only person who visited her at Christmas was her father,” says the lawyer.

According to him, the accusations against the former vice-president of the EP “are very vague and are not based on real circumstances, but only on the money found under the same roof, which Eva Kylie shared with her partner”, an assistant to the European Parliament. Francesco Giorgi.

“After reading the indictment of the investigation, she felt betrayed. Her name was used without her knowledge, she did not know anything about the money in the house until the day of her arrest,” said the same lawyer.

As part of the investigation into the alleged sums of money that Qatar and Morocco offered to European officials to influence the decisions of the EU institutions, about 20 searches were carried out and more than 1.5 million euros in cash, computer equipment and phones were found.

Francesco Giorgi and former Italian Socialist MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, founder and president of the NGO Fight Impunity, and the alleged leader of the criminal group, are also among those arrested and charged.

Eva Kylie’s lawyer also claims that she did not vote in the EP, as Giorgi or Panzeri demanded, but “always voted according to her conscience, neither Panzeri nor her father ever influenced her vote.” The MEP’s father is on trial in the same case, but has not been arrested.

On Thursday, the Belgian judiciary decided to detain the Greek MEP Eva Kyli, accused in a case that already cost her the position of vice president of the European Parliament.

Kylie admitted to the Belgian judge hearing the case that she told her father to take a large sum of cash out of the house. (Agerpress)