Belgium arrested by police in Brussels on Friday evening European Socialist Members of Parliament (EP) Eva Kaili da Greecewho is one of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament, a source close to the case told AFP.
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The arrest was made in connection with an investigation into the corruption involved Catharand before that, four people, including a former MEP, were arrested as part of Friday’s investigation.
Kaili is the partner of one of the four people arrested earlier and the police want to question her, the source said.
As announced by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Belgian police arrested four people on Friday, including a former MEP, during an investigation into possible corruption in the European Parliament committed by a “Gulf country”.
The prosecutor’s office did not name a specific country, but the Belgian newspaper “Le Soir” reported that Qatari officials attempted to bribe of Italy a socialist who was a member of the EP from 2004 to 2019.
For several months, the investigators “suspected that the Gulf State influenced the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament by transferring large sums of money or making large donations to third parties who have an important and/or strategic position in the European Parliament”, said the prosecutor’s office .
“Among the detainees there is a former member of the European Parliament,” said the prosecution, without providing further details on the identity of those arrested.
An investigation into corruption and money laundering is underway.
Police conducted 16 raids in the Belgian capital on Friday, seizing 600,000 euros in cash, as well as electronic equipment and mobile phones.
