Around confiscation Belgian news outlets Le Soir and Knack were the first to report. Now, journalists from this outlet have shown pictures of bundles of seized banknotes that have been made available to the Belgian police.
As the Belgian media wrote, the analysis of banknotes is to help identify the bank from which the money was withdrawn, and this, in turn, helps to identify the person who took it.
It is noteworthy that the European Parliament dismissed Eva Kayli (Socialists and Democrats) on Tuesday from the position of Vice-President of this institution during the plenary session in Strasbourg. Kylie is suspected of corruption. It is about lobbying for Qatar, for which it was supposed to receive money.
There were 625 MEPs in favor of no confidence, 1 against, and 2 abstentions.
On Sunday, a Belgian court indicted Kylie and arrested him. She and three others are accused of corruption, participation in a criminal group and money laundering; An investigation into suspected corruption is underway in the European Parliament.
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Among those arrested are Kayla’s father, partner and parliamentary aide. Also arrested were Luca Visentini, recently elected general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, and Pier Antonio Panzieri, a former MEP who chaired the parliamentary subcommittee on human rights.
Investigators from the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau reported that the home of 59-year-old MP Mark Tarabella (Socialists and Democrats) was also searched on Saturday night. Trabella, who has parliamentary immunity, was not arrested. On Saturday, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, suspended all of Cayla’s powers.
On Friday, the Belgian prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation into possible corruption linked to an unnamed Gulf state suspected of aides and officials in the European Parliament. The media reported that this country is Qatar.
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