Designer bags full of cash and praise for Qatar: who is Eva Kaili, the arrested Greek glamor girl and vice president of the European Parliament?

Designer bags full of cash, a move from a Brussels apartment to a cell and even more scandal in the press: the arrest of the Vice-President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili reads like a serial script. That is not new for Kaili (44). The flamboyant TV presenter was often followed by cameras because of her affinity with Putin, her glitzy lifestyle and controversial statements about Qatar – according to her, a “predecessor in the field of labor rights”. This is Eva Kaili, the top IT girl who fell from her pedestal in a corruption scandal.

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