And this “in particular by preventing the adoption of parliamentary resolutions which could harm the interests of these States, in exchange for sums of money“.
In this vast case of corruption, the Belgian investigators got their hands on 1.5 million euros in cash, seized from the homes of Pier Antonio Panzeri, a former socialist MEP who became a leader of an NGO and who is a central figure in this history, and Greek socialist MEP Eva Kaili, as well as in a suitcase carried by her father.
Like Mr. Panzeri, Ms. Kaili is imprisoned, as are her companion, the Italian Francesco Giorgi, parliamentary assistant, and another Italian, Niccolo Figa-Talamanca, head of an NGO. They are charged with “membership in a criminal organization“, “money laundering” et “corruption“.