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@TheresaAFallon
Dec 10, 2022 • 16 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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Bags full of cash were discovered in the home of European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili. 🧐
Back in the day in Chicago people talked about “shoebox” of money found hidden in the home of corrupt politicians. For European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili it was bags and bags of cash.
About €600,000 ($633,300) in cash was recovered & computer equipt & mobile phones were seized, the prosecutor said.
4 people were arrested for questioning,including a former EU lawmaker & assistants working in parliament,& may be brought before investigating judge.@EUparliament
.@NYTimes reported that the Belgian police conducted raids in 16 locations — including private residences across the capital, Brussels — which yielded a suitcase with 600,000 euros in cash ($633,000). This is shaping up to be one of the biggest scandals at the European Parliament
Detained included Kaili; her life partner, Francesco Giorgi, who works as an aide to another European lawmaker; Luca Visentini,recently elected chief of global workers’ union, the International Trade Union Confederation;& Pier Antonio Panzeri,former member of European Parliament.
Francesco Giorgi’s Instagram gives an idea of their luxe lifestyle as his yacht sailed across the Mediterranean w/ stops in Sardinia and Greece. A pic of a private pool in Sardinia elicited a comment from Kaili about “insane beauty”
Kaili’s other recent sponsored events likely to receive further scrutiny. AI, cryptocurrency and blockchain.
European Parliament VP Kaili’s Christmas card message last year was to “Dream Big” — perhaps this year’s message is to find a good lawyer.
European Parliament corruption case: The partner of Eva Kaili, Francesco Giorgi, was also detained by Belgian police after being monitored for several months, is an expert on human rights and—wait for it—is the founder of Fight Impunity organization.
European Parliament corruption case: “The charges against the MEPs have already triggered resignations and the suspension of a parliamentary vote on granting Qatari nationals visa-free travel to the bloc, due next week.”
European Parliament corruption: “Parliamentarians voiced shock at arrests of 4 people—& of related detention of family members of former Italian MEP, who were allegedly offered a holiday worth €100,000 by the Qataris. Campaigners lambasted the parliament’s “culture of impunity”
“Transparency International, an anti-corruption group, said EU institutions needed an independent ethics regulator.” @FT
Will latest EU Parl scandal be a wake up call? Over many decades parliament allowed a culture of impunity to develop,w/ a combination of lax financial rules & controls & complete lack of independent(or indeed any)#ethics oversight,”said its director,former MEP Michel van Hulten”
European Parliament corruption case was front page news & top story of🇮🇹 Corriere Della Sera, right next to pic of Marocco’s win against Portugal. Headline: Money, favours: shock in Europe
EU Parliament Corruption case: I have never seen so much space dedicated to an EU story of corruption in an Italian newspaper—4 full pages. Will this case increase euroscepticism in Italy?
The EU’s chief diplomat, @JosepBorrellF, has said a corruption scandal in the European parliament involving claims that Qatar was seeking to buy influence in the chamber is “very, very worrisome”. @FT

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Feb 1
👀As European leaders travel to Beijing, I do hope they have been briefed on this. 🧵

"For approximately 4yrs, operators linked to the MSS’s Chengdu bureau had the capability to see not just who British officials were calling, but whom the FBI was investigating, which Chinese operatives were under surveillance, what the US knew about Beijing’s activities, and when counterintelligence was getting close. They could geolocate millions of individuals. They could record phone calls at will. They compromised the surveillance of their own surveillers, achieving the counterintelligence equivalent of reading the other side’s playbook while the game was in progress."
🧵"The security paradox. Systems designed to enable surveillance become targets for adversary surveillance. The more access points you create for your own agencies, the more attack surface you expose to foreign agencies. The debate between security and privacy was always a false binary. The real tradeoff was between surveillability by your government and surveillability by everyone’s government."
🧵 "According to Cisco Talos analysis, the average dwell time before discovery was 393 days. One environment showed attackers maintaining presence for over three years. Three years of access to telecommunications infrastructure that carries the communications of governments, corporations, and private citizens. Three years of watching the watchers."
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Sep 7, 2025
🧐So it looks like Beijing won’t directly pay for the new🇷🇺🇨🇳pipeline but will help Russia pay for the project by allowing it to purchase “panda bonds” which have not been available to Russian companies since 2017. This shift in🇨🇳policy reflects deepening Russian dependence on China. 1/
2/ Beijing offers the first Russian corporate fundraising since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Note to European leaders—Please stop🛑asking Xi to use his influence on Putin to end war in Ukraine. 🇨🇳Supports Russia by buying their energy, exporting dual use goods to keep🇷🇺military machine moving & now offers🇷🇺companies to fundraise by offering them access to purchase panda bonds.
3/ 👀The big takeaway is that Beijing is no longer fearful of secondary sanctions on the bank sector.
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Aug 24, 2025
Must read essay by ⁦@TimothyDSnyder⁩ Putin is a cynical man, the founder of the post-truth politics in which Trump flourishes. But at the bottom of the deepest cynicism can often be found one very naive idea. Putin’s is that Russia has … 1/ on.ft.com/4oQTLhx
2/ … “an ancient, unbroken and holy past that includes Ukraine. The Tale, a hodgepodge assembled by medieval Kyiv monks, became for him a kind of prophecy.
3/ What a picture that accompanied @TimothyDSnyder essay 👀 Image
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Jul 9, 2025
1/ European Union summoned the Chinese ambassador following an incident in which China's military allegedly targeted a German aircraft with a laser during an EU security mission. China has denied the accusation.
2/ According to Germany, a Chinese warship used a laser to target a German patrol aircraft taking part in Operation ASPIDES, the EU-led mission tasked with protecting commercial vessels from Houthi rebel attacks. The incident reportedly occurred in early July during a routine flight, with no prior warning or communication from the Chinese vessel.
3/ While German officials have reported multiple encounters with the same Chinese warship in the region, Beijing has rejected the claim, saying there is no evidence of hostile action.
China has previously denied accusations of firing or pointing lasers at U.S. planes. Incidents involving a European NATO member and China are more unusual.
—Perhaps another issue to discuss during the EU China Summit 🧐
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Jan 6, 2025
“Massive ‘Typhoon’ cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure and telecoms sought to lay groundwork for potential conflict with Beijing, as intruders gathered data and got in position to impede response and sow chaos” 1/
“The message from President Biden’s national security adviser was startling.

Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down dozens of U.S. ports, power grids and other infrastructure targets at will, Jake Sullivan told telecommunications and technology executives at a secret meeting at the White House in the fall of 2023.” 2/
“What no one at the briefing knew, including Sullivan: China’s hackers were already working their way deep inside U.S. telecom networks, too. 
The two massive hacking operations have upended the West’s understanding of what Beijing wants, while revealing the astonishing skill level and stealth of its keyboard warriors—once seen as the cyber equivalent of noisy, drunken burglars.” 3/
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May 4, 2024
A Chinese man in🇫🇷posts a video online criticizing Xi-it only had 80 views.Nevertheless,same day he received a call from🇨🇳Embassy & they want to forcibly…francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazin…
2/ send him back to🇨🇳. He contacted a journalist for help who filmed the incident at the airport.🇨🇳diplomat refused to return passport.Dissident’s family in🇨🇳. Will Xi get cooperation from Macron to return man?
3/ The French documentary described Beijing's illegal extradition efforts.Documentary tracked down this photo from a secret🇨🇳police station in France (1 of 6 identified by Safeguard Defend) of a celebration of🇨🇳 police in🇫🇷.This must be an embarrassment for🇫🇷security officials. Image
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