750 thousand euros in cash and gifts from Qatar- Corriere.it

When the police saw him hurriedly leaving the luxurious hotel in the European quarter of Brussels with a suitcase in his hand, it took only a moment for the agents to jump on him and block the father of the vice president of the European Parliament Eva Kaili and find in the trolley he dragged around the beauty of 600 thousand euros in 50 euro banknotes. Why was the man, who had arrived at the hotel a few days earlier with his wife, in such haste? Perhaps he suspected that the investigators were on the trail of the money accumulated by his daughter with bribes, say the Belgian magistrates.

To this money will be added in the evening others 150 thousand euros found in banknotes of 20 and 50 euros in Kaili’s home together with more valuable gifts, such as medals and other objects, received as a gift from Qatar. The discovery of the money and gifts was considered the flagrante delicto which, by forfeiting parliamentary immunity, allowed the judiciary to arrest Kaili. Cash the feature of the inquiry concerning a round of corruption
to favor a soft attitude of continental politics in favor of Morocco and Qatar, the second country in the world for insufficient respect for human rights.

An investigation that is hitting the heart of the highest representative European institution with the arrest of the former Greek TV journalist Kaili to whom another 7 people were added on Friday 9 December, including the former parliamentarian in Brussels Pd Antonio Panzeri, his wife and his daughter (arrested and sent to house arrest in Italy), as well as those of Kaili’s companion Francesco Giorgio and the secretary of the NGO No peace without justice, the Italian Niccol Fig Talamanca. And indeed, even in the residence in which Panzeri lives in Brussels the judicial police found in two sacks of 20 and 50 euro banknotes for a total of approximately 600 thousand euros. In all, 10 searches were carried out in the offices of MEPs and 19 in private homes.

Money, more money, was found today by the Guardia di Finanza in the home of Panzeri and his family in Calusco d’Adda, in the province of Bergamo, where his wife Maria Dolores Colleoni and daughter Silvia are under house arrest. The yellow flames have found 17 thousand euros by carrying out a European investigation order sent from Brussels to homes in Milan and in the province attributable to Panzeri and his family. In the investigation papers, the federal investigating judge Michel Claise writes that for several months, the investigators of the Federal Criminal Police have suspected that a Gulf countryto influence the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament, paid large sums of money or offered important gifts and to individuals who had a significant political and/or strategic position in the European Parliament.

The president of the European Parliament intervened on the matter Roberta Metsola during a plenary: There will be no impunity. Nobody. Those responsible will find this Parliament on the side of the law. I am proud of our role and assistance in this investigation. There will be no need to sweep the dust under the rug. And she added that it will start an internal investigation to examine all the facts relating to Parliament and to see how our systems can become even more waterproof. She then expressed her disappointment about it and addressed the rest of the assembly: I know you all share the same sentiment. To those malicious actors in third countries who think they can buy their own way. That they think Europe is for sale. Who think they can take over our NGOs. Let me say that you will find this Parliament firmly on your way. We are Europeans. I also had to announce the opening of the negotiating mandate for the report onvisa-free with Qatar and Kuwait. In the light of the investigations, this report will have to be referred back to committee, he concluded.