Eva 'The money was just resting in my cupboard' Kaili is released from prison and put under house arrest.

#EUcorruption #EvaKaili

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/04/12/corruption-scandal-eva-kaili-released-from-prison-and-put-under-house-arrest-lawyer-says

Here's a depressing analysis of the impact of #corruption on #democracy prompted by the #EUCorruption case underway right now.

As is often said, all that evil (and money) need to triumph is for good people to do nothing!

Perhaps the difficulty is we've been too complacent about the need to defend democracy & are now paying the price?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/18/good-news-for-the-worlds-autocrats-eu-sleaze-is-a-huge-own-goal-for-democracy

A ver, que la #UniónEuropea se atreva a predicar sobre corrupción a #LatinoAmerica otra vez!

#EU #EuropeanParliament #UE #UnionEuropea #ParlamentoEuropeo #EuropeanUnion #Corrupcion #CorrupcionEnLaUE #CorruptionEurope #Corruption #EUCorruption #QatarGate

#KalliGate #EUCorruption ebenso in Untersuchungshaft wie zwei weitere Italiener: der frühere Europaabgeordnete Pier Antonio Panzeri, bei dem ebenfalls ein Koffer mit etwa 600.000 Euro in Bargeld gefunden wurde, und ein Lobbyist/2

@thorchrs

€600,000 apparently - I hope for the sake of the member nations thie #euCorruption is rooted out

Meanwhile back in blighty we are free of this sort of thing....

apart from the odd £29 million backhander, that is.......