2024-01-12 07:37:00
Eva Kaili demands the inadmissibility of criminal proceedings against her as part of the investigation into suspicions of corruption within the institution, report L’Echo and De Standaard on Friday.
Eva Kaili’s lawyers are demanding from the Brussels indictment chamber the inadmissibility of the prosecution on the grounds that the parliamentary immunity of the Greek MEP was violated from the start of the investigation, in July 2022, i.e. five months before his spectacular arrest at his Brussels home, on December 9, 2022.
The lawyers of the European Parliament, civil party in this case, for their part communicated their conclusions to the other parties on Wednesday. For them, on the one hand, immunity “is in no way a personal privilege granted to the member of Parliament and does not put him above the law”, and on the other hand, it “does not does not apply to the criminal investigation phase, but only to the proceedings on the merits. This last point is crucial, while the federal prosecutor’s office had made the prudent choice, at the start of the procedure, not to take any investigative action against Eva Kaili or any other MEP, before the flagrant crime of December 9, 2022 unties his hands.
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They also consider that the failure to lift an immunity is an “obstacle to the exercise of public action and not a cause of inadmissibility” and, therefore, that no act of investigation must be dismissed.
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