“Nobody gets away with it,” wrote Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament.

“At the request of the Belgian judicial authorities, I have initiated swift action to suspend the immunity of two members of the European Parliament,” she wrote. Twitterme Roberta Metsola, chair of the board, at noon on Monday. the France Press agency The news agency stated that the suspension of immunity for politicians is linked to the Qatar Gate corruption scandal that erupted in early December.

Although neither Metsola nor Agence France-Presse, whose immunity was requested by the Belgian authorities, are mentioned, in addition to one of the main suspects in the case, the Greek Eva Kaili and her husband, many other actors are linked to the scandal. Maria Arena, one of them, is a Belgian citizen. Arena hired Kylie’s Italian husband Francesco Giorgi as his assistant.

Eva Kayli, former vice president of the European Parliament accused of corruption, is spending Christmas in prison

The politician was arrested in early December as a suspect in the case known as Qatargate. Although Eva Kayli’s lawyers demanded that the former vice-president of the European Parliament be placed under house arrest with a tracker, the Brussels court instead extended the pre-trial detention of the Greek politician accused of corruption by one month.

The Belgian authorities arrested Eva Kaili and her companions on December 9, and according to their statement, one and a half million euros were confiscated during the house searches conducted in the case. Francesco Giorgi has already admitted: he has admitted that he is a member of a lobbying organization that Morocco and Qatar have used to interfere with the decisions of the European Parliament.

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The suspect in the case is Niccolò Vega Talamanca, director of the NGO “No Peace Without Justice”, as well as the former Italian member of the European Parliament, Pier Antonio Panziri. He is currently the President of Fight Impunity, an NGO based in Brussels. All are accused of belonging to a criminal organization, money laundering and corruption.

What is the corruption scandal in the European Parliament, which even Viktor Orban is mocking?

On Friday, the Belgian police issued a vice-president of the European Parliament and a number of his colleagues in the commission in a huge raid on charges of using their political power to work for Qatar in the European Union in exchange for bribes and gifts. At the start of the week, Hungary’s prime minister reacted to the ever-growing issue with a damning meme.

“No one gets away with it. None of them,” Roberta Metsola wrote on Twitter.

(Our cover photo features Eva Kayley, former Vice President of the European Parliament.)




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