It seems that Eva Kaili and her partner, Francesco Giorgi, will go their separate ways in the coming days, according to statements by the lawyer of the MEP, who was removed from PASOK after the Qatargate scandal.
Michalis Dimitrakopoulos revealed on Alpha TV that the former PASOK executive informed him, as his client, that she wishes to terminate the cohabitation agreement she has made with the father of their daughter, Francesco Giorgi. They now live in separate houses.
"They are united only by the child. Possibly in the next few days there will be developments in the direction of ending the cohabitation agreement", said the lawyer. "We have been chatting recently that the possibility of breaking the pact is very close to the decisions. I told her to think about it. Mrs. Kaili is oriented in this direction."
The Greek MEP was one of the first to be arrested last December in raids by the Belgian police as they launched a sprawling investigation into whether foreign countries, including Qatar and Morocco, had been involved in bribing EU lawmakers. The scandal came to be known as Qatargate.
After her detention pending trial was prolonged several times, she was moved from jail to house arrest with an electronic monitor in mid-April. In late May, the Belgian prosecutor’s office said the EU lawmaker was no longer under house arrest.
The Greek MEP has not been witnessed back in the European Parliament in Brussels, even though her Dimitrakopoulos said that she visited her office there last week.
Kaili was stripped of her position as one of the vice presidents of the Parliament over her role in the bribery case, but she remains a sitting MEP. She reiterated her claims of innocence in a number of media interviews published in early June, arguing that authorities might have targeted her because she knew too much about government spying.
The MEP's lawyer said on Monday she would not attend the plenary session of European Parliament in Strasbourg this week, for “personal, objective reasons which cannot be made public."
According to the court ruling on the waiver of Kaili’s immunity, she is prohibited from leaving the country without the prior written permission of the investigating judge or the competent judge, with the exception of her stay in Strasbourg in the context of her professional activities.
It should be noted that Marc Tarabella, a Belgian MEP who is also charged in the case, attended a committee meeting in the European Parliament in Brussels just a few days after the lifting of the electronic surveillance.
Kaili and Tarabella have not lost their rights and obligations as MEPs, which means they receive their parliamentary allowance and have the right to vote.
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