He had fled there six years earlier after losing his parliamentary immunity from arrest.
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No wonder opposition leaders said this week they would seek to remove Mr Estevao's parliamentary immunity.
Mr Berezovsky enjoys parliamentary immunity, but political pressure, if it were strong enough, could have it lifted.
One might add a fourth consideration: parliamentary immunity has enabled some corrupt businessmen to ward off legal investigation.
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For his pains he was accused of forgery, had his parliamentary immunity lifted, and was clapped in jail.
The next day, Mr Lieberman surprised many by announcing his resignation as a minister and waived his parliamentary immunity.
The anti-corruption campaign has coincided with the sentencing to prison, in apparent violation of their parliamentary immunity, of three reformist deputies.
Without parliamentary immunity or security guards paid for by the state, her life in the Netherlands could have become very dangerous indeed.
For a start, General Pinochet is a senator, enjoying parliamentary immunity as long as he remains one and he is a senator for life.
This insured that they would vote for anything the government proposed, however Draconian, since to bring the administration down would mean losing parliamentary immunity.
The police cannot search his home because he and his family live on the family ranch and are thereby sheltered by the prime minister's own parliamentary immunity.
Legally, he can do this because convicts in Italy do not usually serve short prison sentences until all their appeals have been heard, and anyway he enjoys parliamentary immunity.
The firm's shares slipped further after news that prosecutors were seeking to have another big shareholder, Vasily Shakhnovsky, stripped of his parliamentary immunity so he can face charges of tax evasion.
The entire story was brought to light because three radical post-Zionist and anti-Zionist members of Knesset abused their parliamentary immunity to announce on live television what the military censor had, for reasons of national security placed a gag order on.
The MEPs said they were also extremely concerned about a recent parliamentary decision which allowed army officers accused of human rights abuses during Operation Clean Heart to be given immunity from prosecution.
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