Not only suitcases full of cash scattered around the houses of Brussels but also accounts in offshore havens.
There is a risk of further expanding Qatargate, and not only from the point of view of the MEPs involved.
The Greek authorities have asked the State of Panama for information on an account held in the name of the former vice president of the Eurochamber Eva Kaili and her parents, and deposited at the local Bladex Bank.
It is there that, according to the Greek anti-money laundering authority, twenty million euros could have flowed from Qatar.
Thus a new branch of the investigation could be opened which has engulfed the European Parliament, just as the Democratic Party is giving a convinced yes to the waiver of the immunity requested by the Belgian investigators for the socialist MEPs Marc Tarabella and Andrea Cozzolino.
The request made by Athens is waiting to receive an answer.
Certainly, the trail of tax havens such as that of the Central American state was among the first to be beaten by prosecutor Michel Claise in the days following the arrests of Eva Kaili, Antonio Panzeri, Francesco Giorgi and Niccolò Figà-Talamanca.
All four remain in prison in Brussels, awaiting the hearings scheduled between 17 and 27 January.
The hearing to decide whether or not Silvia Panzeri should be handed over to Belgium was postponed to 16 January by the Brescia Court of Appeal.
The judges had accepted a question with which the defense had highlighted the critical conditions of Belgian prisons, and had postponed the hearing waiting to verify the situation, through the invitation of a report from Brussels.
However, the documentation did not arrive.
In the meantime, the lawyers Angelo De Riso and Nicola Colli have asked that the daughter of Antonio Panzeri, currently under house arrest, be released or, alternatively, that there is only an obligation for her to sign.
The judges' decision is expected within the next 5 days.
Mid-January will also be crucial for the MEP implications linked to Qatargate following the request of the Belgian investigators to revoke the immunity of Tarabella and Cozzolino.
President Roberta Metsola will announce the procedure at the start of the Strasbourg plenary on 16 January.
It will be up to the Juri commission (competent for legal matters) to vote yes to the revocation, which will then have to be ratified by the House.
The leaders of the European Parliament should activate an emergency procedure, to close the case already at the mini-plenary scheduled for early February.
And the vote should hold no surprises.
"The Democratic Party will vote in favor of the waiver of immunity", assured the head of the Dem delegation to the EP, Brando Benifei.
Another strand linked to the investigation, that of relations between the EU and the countries linked to the case, Qatar and Morocco in the first place, could record news in the next few hours, when the High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell will land in the Maghreb country to a two day mission.
Nothing from the EU has filtered into Borrell's trip but Qatargate is likely to be on the table.
Also because, at least at the MEP level, relations between the EU and third countries will not go back to the way they were before.
A report by the Belgian newspaper Le Soir went over all the meetings that the investigators sifted through behind the scenes of the EP vote on respect for human rights in Qatar.
One for all.
On October 10, the luxury Steigenberger Wiltcher's hotel in Brussels hosted the Qatari Labor Minister Al Marri and his right-hand man, Boudejellal B., known as 'the Algerian', both on missions in the Belgian capital.
It is here that Giorgi and Panzeri showed up.
The two went up to suite 412. The meeting lasted an hour and a half.
"At 19.21 Panzeri and Giorgi left the suite and, according to the investigators, they had one more bag with them than when they entered", writes Le Soir.
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