Eva Kaili’s lawyers will ask for an adjournment until next Tuesday from the Belgian court, which will decide whether she will remain in prison or not, amid the Qatargate developments.
According to her lawyer, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, today the employees of the courts in Belgium are on strike and for this reason there may be a delay in making the decision.
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He also noted that he had contacted Ms Kaili’s Belgian lawyers and suggested they seek an adjournment.
“The decision could be made in her absence,” said her lawyer, who, however, added that “he advised her to be in court herself and fight her battle.”
Mr. Dimitrakopoulos also said that in the last two 24 hours he had long hours of communication with Kaili as she was given the possibility of telephone communication with her lawyer.
How the money got into her home
Regarding the exact amount of money found in the house of the former vice-president of the European Parliament, her lawyer argued that he cannot disclose it as it is part of the confidentiality applicable in the pre-trial procedure.
She repeated that she did not know there was any money in her house and when she discovered it she told her partner to “move it and take it to its owner”.
Dimitrakopoulos also argued that in the attempt to remove the money, Eva’s father Kailis was involved in the case and he undertook to transfer it to its owner.
However, the lawyer again invoked confidentiality without naming the owner.
Closed hearing on Qatargate
According to a report by Kathimerini newspaper, in a closed hearing at the Palais de Justice, by Belgian judges will decide the further criminal course of the case against Eva Kaili and the three others accused in the graft case..
That is, if she will remain in custody or if she will be released until her case is taken to court.
Release with electronic surveillance
One of the possible scenarios seems to be that of her release from prison, on the condition that she be monitored electronically with the so-called bracelet.
Until late yesterday, it was not known whether the Greek MEP would attend the proceedings or whether she would be represented by her Brussels based Greek diaspora lawyer Andre Rizopoulos.
Last night, however, Eva Kaili spent her time in the newly built Haren prison, 7.5 kilometers outside the Belgian capital, near Zavedem airport. She was transferred there on Monday from the old prisons in the Saint-Gilles district in the heart of Brussels, so that she and her three co-defendants in the Qatargate case could receive better detention conditions.
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