A matter of time is the return of Eva Kaili to her home with “electronic wristband” monitoring until the day of her trial.

Her advocate Sven Marie she appears before the pre-trial panel today, however formally, as the decision to release her on parole after four months in Haren prisons over the Qatargate scandal has been received and the technicalities are expected to be sorted out so that she can possibly be implemented today M. Thursday or M. Friday, no later than Easter Monday.

“There is nothing against being placed under electronic surveillance,” says investigator Michel Cleese in an official document.

According to her advocate Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, “she will be released when the electronic bracelet is found. Most likely by Friday (or tomorrow) he will have been found, when he will be released from prison. The longest period is until Monday.”

In this new phase of her life, however, Eva Kaili chose to stay alone with her minor daughter in her apartment in Brussels and not with her partner, Francesco Giorgi, who will live alone in another place, located 10 km from hers.

“There are two spaces” described Mr. Dimitrakopoulos, saying that “in one her partner lives and in the other, by her own wish, she will live alone with her daughter. It’s not something the investigator ordered, they could coexist in the same space.”

Regarding their communication, this will be done by phone only, while the phone calls between them will be recorded, and Mr. Giorgi has been under house arrest since last February.

“It was our wish for them to be separate,” clarified Ms. Kaili’s advocate, confirming the distance that the Greek MEP wants to keep in the new phase of her life. The distance from her partner seems to be the only one she does not wish to bridge herself, as her concern according to her advocate is the restoration of her dignity, although there are still several steps to be taken.

Where are the Qatargate investigations?

“I can tell you that he is coming out of prison with his head held high, with dignity and without having confessed to crimes he did not commit. I give you one promise, that she will fight to the end to prove her innocence,” said her other lawyer, Mrs. Dimitrakopoulos, and noted that she will not submit a request to come to Greece, but “will stay in Brussels until it is proven her innocence”.

Eva Kaili, who was at the center of the much-lauded financing scandal, will return to her home where she will be with her child as soon as the technical procedures are completed so that she can be monitored on a 24-hour basis.

Both o Georgie, and Italian former MEP Antonio Panzeri, the alleged ringleader of the bribery ring who reached a deal with Belgian investigators, have been released on electronic monitoring.

The release of Kaili, according to the politics, opens a new chapter in authorities’ months-long effort to find out who may have been under the influence of foreign governments while working in Parliament. But that doesn’t mean the process is moving toward a trial anytime soon, said Christian De Valkeneer, a professor of criminal law at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

“It does not assume that the investigation is complete,” he said. In Belgium, De Valkeneer added, parole under electronic monitoring is considered “an extension of an arrest warrant, with the only difference that the warrant is not executed in a prison.”

Despite this, the authorities will soon have no one in prison anymore, raising questions about the where is the research.

For months, prosecutors’ nets only widened as police arrested two more EU lawmakers, Belgian Marc Tarabella and Italian Andrea Cozzolino, as well as an accountant in Italy, Monica Bellini.

However, investigations have slowed down in recent weeks, e.gsometimes other arrests and with the gradual release of suspects under house arrest. Cozzolino and Bellini are also both still in Italy, where local judges are asking Belgium for more information before ruling on the extradition request.