The plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg approved the lifting of immunity for Greek MEP Eva Kaili on Tuesday following a request by the European Prosecutor over a case related to management of allowances to parliamentary assistants. Voting took place by raised hands, per procedure. The case had been …

A search was carried out in the house of MEP and ex vice of the European Parliament Eva Kaili in Psychiko suburb of northern Athens by men of the Greek economic police, following an order from the European General Prosecutor. A Greek and a Belgian prosecutor were present at the …

Eva Kaili is is free to return to her duties in the European Parliament and to exercise her rights as an MEP, her lawyers announced in a statement on Friday. The lawyers statement came a day after Belgian prosecuting authorities remove the electronic bracelet from Eva Kaili who has been …

Prosecuting authorities in Brussels on Thursday confirmed the decision to remove the electronic bracelet monitoring arrested MEP and former European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili. Belgian authorities said further that Kaili will be subject to restrictions that are not yet known. After having spent four months in Brussels prison due …

Next to Qatar-gate investigation, Greek MEP Eva Kaili faces also probe for misappropriating European Parliament funds, falsifying her assistants’ expenses, Politico reports on Tuesday. POLITICO has obtained documents showing Kaili is accused of taking a cut from her assistants’ salaries and their faked reimbursement requests. According to politico, Eva Kaili …

Greek MEP and former Vice President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili was released from prison on Wednesday by order of Belgian prosecutor Michel Claise following a detention of over four months, said her Belgian lawyer Sven Mary. Kaili will be placed under house arrest, wearing an electronic tracking bracelet. …

Belgian judicial authorities will announce later this week whether Greek MEP and former European Parliament vice president Eva Kaili should be released from pre-trial detention with an electronic bracelet, her lawyer has said on Tuesday. Speaking after an appeal hearing in Brussels, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos said he expected the decision to …

The judges council in Brussels rejected Eva Kaili’s request to be released from custody on bail, thus extending her detention for another two months, Belgian media reported. This was the third time the former European Parliament vice president appeared before the council since her arrest, and she has a right …

The former lawyer to Salah Abdeslam — the key figure in the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks — is taking over the defense of Greek MEP Eva Kaili in the probe looking into alleged corruption in the European Parliament. Sven Mary, a prominent criminal defense lawyer in Belgium, told POLITICO on …

The court in Brussels confirmed Thursday evening that Eva Kaili remains in prison in pre-trial detention after she appeared before judicial council earlier. In an official announcement the council said that Kaili can appeal the decision within 24 hours, but she will have to appear before the Indictment Chamber at …

Eva Kaili was subject to “torture reminiscent of the Middle Ages” her Greek lawyer said on Thursday afternoon, following the hearing before the Judicial council in Brussels that will decide whether she remains in pre-trial custody or be remporary released with an ankle bracelet. “Mrs. Kaili remained for 6 hours …

With an urgent request, the president of Greece’s Anti-money Laundering Authority has asked authorities in Panama to provide information on whether an amount totaling 20 million euros have been transferred from Qatar to bank accounts, which may have been opened in the name of Eva Kaili and partner Francesco Giorgi. …

A Belgian court decided on Thursday evening that MEP Eva Kaili will remain in custody for one more month. She can appeal within 24 hours and her appeal will be examined within 15 days. The judicial council decided to extend the pretrial detention of 44-year-old Eva Kaili in Harem prisons …

Greece’s Authority against money laundering ordered on Thursday the freezing of a 0.7-acres plot of land owned by arrested MEP Eva Kaili and her husband Francesco Giorgi on the island of Paros. In addition, authorities reportedly froze also a joint bank account held by Kaili and Giorgi, through which they …

Greek MEP and former EP vice president Eva Kaili admitted under questioning in Belgium that she had asked her father to hide part of the money that was in her home, Brlgian media “Le Soir” and “Knack”as well as Italian “Republica” reported. The media noted that Kaili has “partially confessed”, …

Τhe Economic Prosecutor’s Office in Greece ordered on Friday a preliminary criminal investigation against MEP Eva Kaili with the aim to investigate whether the crimes of bribing a political person and money laundering or any other ex officio prosecuted crime have been committed. According to media reports, essential for the …

Qatar-Gate: The Tribunal of First Instance court in Brussels ruled on Wednesday that two of the four people detained by Belgian authorities investigating a bribery scandal involving Qatar, are to remain in custody. A third one is released with an electronic bracelet. The hearing of MEP Eva Kaili has been …

The pre-trial hearing of MEP Eva Kaili has been postponed to December 22, media in Greece report from Brussels on Wednesday afternoon. She did not  appear at the hearing, where it will be decided whether she will remain in custody or be released on conditions. The postponement has been confirmed …

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola stripped ΜEP Eva Kaili of her vice-presidential obligations and duties, in a brief statement to the European parliament. “Our way of open, free, democratic societies is under attack. The enemies of democracy (…) will stop at nothing. These malign actors, linked to autocratic third countries, …

The head of the Greek authority against money-laundering ordered on Monday morning the freezing of all assets owned in Greece by European Parliament Vice-President and MEP Eva Kaili, her partner and her immediate family such as parents and siblings. it is recalled that Kaili’s father was reportedly detained outside a …