FILE PHOTO: Ex Vice President of the European Parliament, Eva Kaili EPA, ALAL MORCHIDI
The Greek authority against money-laundering on Monday announced that it has traced a real estate firm based in the central Athens district of Kolonaki to the jailed MEP Eva Kaili and her partner.
The company, set up one month ago and involved in the trade and exploitation of property, has been frozen and its activities are being investigated.
Earlier, the authority announced that it was ordering a freeze of all assets owned by Kaili, her partner and her immediate family in Greece, including all real estate, bank accounts, as well as all financial products, shares in companies and other assets, in the wake of her arrest in Belgium on charges of corruption, money-laundering and participation in a criminal organisation.
The asset freeze primarily seeks to discover and block cash or expensive portable goods (gifts) that can be shown to be linked to money laundering.
The chief of Greece’s authority against money laundering, former Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor Haralambos Vourliotis, on Monday ordered a thorough examination of the wealth and asset declarations submitted by Kaili’s father.
As a public functionary in his own right, her father is obliged by law to submit such declarations of wealth and assets on an annual basis.
Source: APE-MPE
Athens, Greece
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