ATHENS – Eva Kelly will visit her 22-month-old daughter in prison on Friday, according to her Greek lawyer Michaelis Dimitrakopoulos.
Dimitrakopoulos told local Alpha TV on Thursday that a previous request by the Greek MEP, who is currently lodged in Haren prison in Brussels on trial on corruption charges, had been rejected, with Belgian authorities extending the duration of the leave and Personnel shortage was cited as the reason for the lack of staff.
He further said that the authorities used the child as an instrument of pressure to “break” the former MEP.
“It crossed my mind that they were pressuring Callie to confess, which is why they didn’t let her see their child,” he said.
Dimitrakopoulos said that Amnesty International and other organizations pressured the Belgian authorities to approve the trip. Amnesty International was not immediately available for comment.
According to Greek media, Kaili will meet her daughter for three hours on Friday afternoon.
The member of the European Parliament and former parliament vice-president has been in jail since 9 December, after being arrested and charged in Brussels in a wider investigation into Qatar’s lobbying operation, which has also implicated cali’s partnerA former MEP and head of an NGO.
Dimitrakopoulos said authorities have “no evidence to confirm and link eva cali For money and bribe.
In a separate interview on local Sky TV, he said, “The Belgians have found no evidence of the core crime of bribery, so the next most serious crime of money laundering does not stand,” adding that his lawyers were seeking restrictive terms. Would say instead of detention. “We may have a development even before January 22, when his detention is to be re-examined.”
“Kellie cannot cooperate with authorities in this matter because she knows nothing about her husband’s criminal behavior,” Dimitrakopoulos said, adding, “She did not search his husband’s suitcase and briefcase.”
She claims she found out about the money on the day of her partner’s arrest and panicked, then called her father and asked him to collect the baby’s suitcase and bottles from her flat. them in a hotel in brussels suitcase full of cash — who, according to an arrest warrant, asked him to pick her up from her apartment.