A court in Albania decided on Saturday to detain until his trial an ethnic Greek mayoral candidate in the southern Albanian municipality of Himara, Fredi Beleri, after he was charged with vote-buying.
CORRUPTION
Belgian authorities have released two suspects in the Qatargate corruption scandal from house arrest on conditions. Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella and Francesco Giorgi, the Italian parliamentary assistant of Greek MEP Eva Kaili, had been under house arrest in the case of alleged bribes from Qatar, Morocco and Mauritania to influence European Parliament decision making.
The latest information about Greece in the Eurobarometer survey on corruption is nothing new, but the trend is upward.
Former president Nicos Anastasiades, who has denied accusations that he unlawfully interfered in a soccer match-fixing probe, engaged in a back-and-forth with his accuser after he dropped the bombshell firsthand account allegations during a public podcast.
Amid the outcry over widespread illegal construction on the island of Mykonos and the state finally deciding to intervene and order demolitions recently, the role of some policemen with close connections to the builders engaged in illegal activity has drawn the spotlight.
The lawyer of Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption who is to be released from custody and placed under house arrest, said that her fingerprints were never found on the bundles of money found in her residence by an investigator in the so-called Qatargate scandal.
Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption, has been released from custody in Belgium to house arrest.
Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption, is to be released from custody and placed under house arrest, while still facing charges, federal prosecutors and her lawyer’s office said on Wednesday.
The swiftness of lawlessness and the slow movement of the state apparatus and justice can be quite astonishing. A prime example is the construction of large, unauthorized buildings that are provocative in nature.
Belgian police and German investigators carried out a raid on Tuesday at the headquarters of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) as part of an investigation in Germany.
The European Commission’s transport unit chief Henrik Hololei has been transferred to another post, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. The transfer comes after a row over several Qatar-paid trips Hololei took.
The Anti-Money Laundering Authority has launched a general financial audit for bribes in railway network owner OSE and its subsidiaries, targeting officials who held positions of responsibility in OSE, its ERGOSE subsidiary and TRAINOSE.
Belgian judicial authorities will announce later this week whether Greek MEP Eva Kaili should be released from pre-trial detention with an electronic bracelet, her lawyer has said.
Greek MEP Eva Kaili has appealed through her Greek lawyer Spyros Pappas to the European Court of Justice against the decision of the European Parliament to lift her immunity, claiming that it is “illegal.”
A pre-trial council in Brussels on Thursday extended the detention of Greek MEP Eva Kaili by another two months. Kaili, a European Parliament vice-president, was arrested on 9 December 2022 in Brussels as part of the Qatargate corruption case in the European Parliament.
Eva Kaili, the MEP and former European Parliament Vice-President that has been detained over her alleged involvement in the Qatargate scandal, is set to appear before a pretrial council on Thursday morning.
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