From journalism to big politics.
Before the arrest in Belgium for the investigation into the corruption of European officials, the career of Eva Kaili, vice president of the EU Parliament elected with the socialist party of Pasok, had followed the path common to many other Greek politicians.
Born in Thessaloniki 44 years ago, Kaili has a degree in architecture and from 2004 to 2007 she made herself known as one of the leading faces of the news of Mega Channel, a popular Greek television channel, where she worked as a presenter.
In Greece, he also worked as a consultant for a media group and for the Pharmaceutical Industry Association.
Among the youngest Pasok deputies elected in 2007 in the Greek Parliament, in 2014 you arrived at the Eurochamber in Brussels, where you met your partner, the Italian Francesco Giorgi (also among those arrested), with whom she has a daughter.
In January you took the big leap, when you were elected Vice-President of the European Parliament.
According to Pasok secretary Nikos Androulakis, who ousted Kaili from the party, the MEP's troubles with her political family had already started some time before.
"Ever since I denounced the wiretapping scandal in Greece last July, Kaili has said it was a common thing that has already happened to others," Androulakis explained, stating that she had already told the MEP in September that she would not be re-nominated with Pasok.
Androulakis was in fact the first politician to have revealed an attempt to hack his cell phone by unknown people with the Predator spyware.
His denunciation was the fuse that set off the so-called 'Greek watergate' in the country.
On that occasion Kaili had been interviewed by the broadcaster Mega and had stated that wiretaps similar to that of the secretary of her party had been denounced by MEPs from other countries, and she herself had defined herself as the victim of a similar attack, again by unknown, during a trip to the Arabian Peninsula.
A statement that was not appreciated by the leaders of her party, but according to Greek government spokesman Yannis Economou "Mrs Kaili has been a close political ally of Androulakis for many years: they have been working together since 2014, when they were both elected deputies to the European Parliament".