Greece’s Finance Ministry will scan social media and specifically Facebook and Instagram to locate tax evaders. The social media “safari” aims to identify hidden income of individuals but also companies that do businesses via the internet, Sunday edition of newspaper realnews.gr reported. Individuals will be checked based on the pictures …
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Five adults and a baby evacuated during fire in popular Athens restaurant (vids)
Fire Service and Police Department for Extortion have launched an investigation into the causes of a fire that completely destroyed an Italian restaurant in Nea Smyrni suburb of south Athens early Friday morning, setting at risk people’s lives including of one baby. Eyewitnesses claim it was an arson. Video: The …
Read More »Train crash 10 days later: Greece’s ministers appear devastated at cabinet meeting
Broadcasting live the introduction statement by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the start of the cabinet meeting on Thursday morning was rather a flop even though several ministers showed deep mourning and devastation ten whole days after the deadly train collision in Tempi on February 28, 2023.. Addressing the ministers …
Read More »Inspectors locate tax evasion worth than 15million euros
Inspectors of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) located extensive tax evasion in eleven services sectors. The amount of total tax evasion is 15 million euros. All are companies to which the controls were targeted and with special handling and the results were the object processed by special software …
Read More »Eva Kaili to remain in custody for another 2 months, Βelgian judges rule
The judges council in Brussels rejected Eva Kaili’s request to be released from custody on bail, thus extending her detention for another two months, Belgian media reported. This was the third time the former European Parliament vice president appeared before the council since her arrest, and she has a right …
Read More »Turkish FM falls in the arms of Greek counterpart visiting areas devastated by earthquake
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu fell in the arms of his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias upon the latter’s arrival in earthquake-stricken Turkey early Sunday morning. The two foreign ministers had a brief meeting in a lounge at the airport of Adana and then boarded helicopters bound for the earthquake-affected areas …
Read More »Brussels court confirms Eva Kaili remains in prison
The court in Brussels confirmed Thursday evening that Eva Kaili remains in prison in pre-trial detention after she appeared before judicial council earlier. In an official announcement the council said that Kaili can appeal the decision within 24 hours, but she will have to appear before the Indictment Chamber at …
Read More »Eva Kaili was “tortured” in Belgian prison, says her Greek lawyer
Eva Kaili was subject to “torture reminiscent of the Middle Ages” her Greek lawyer said on Thursday afternoon, following the hearing before the Judicial council in Brussels that will decide whether she remains in pre-trial custody or be remporary released with an ankle bracelet. “Mrs. Kaili remained for 6 hours …
Read More »MEP Eva Kaili in custody for one more month, Belgian court rules
A Belgian court decided on Thursday evening that MEP Eva Kaili will remain in custody for one more month. She can appeal within 24 hours and her appeal will be examined within 15 days. The judicial council decided to extend the pretrial detention of 44-year-old Eva Kaili in Harem prisons …
Read More »Greece investigates Eva Kaili for bribery and money laundering
Τhe Economic Prosecutor’s Office in Greece ordered on Friday a preliminary criminal investigation against MEP Eva Kaili with the aim to investigate whether the crimes of bribing a political person and money laundering or any other ex officio prosecuted crime have been committed. According to media reports, essential for the …
Read More »Greece freezes assets of Eva Kaili, her partner and immediate family
The head of the Greek authority against money-laundering ordered on Monday morning the freezing of all assets owned in Greece by European Parliament Vice-President and MEP Eva Kaili, her partner and her immediate family such as parents and siblings. it is recalled that Kaili’s father was reportedly detained outside a …
Read More »EP-Vice Eva Kaili among four arrested in Qatargate: Belgian media
European Parliament Vice and MEP Eva Kaili is reported to be among the four people arrested over the weekend over corruption charges, Belgian media and French news agency AFP report early Sunday afternoon. #UPDATE Four suspects have been charged and remanded in custody in a Belgian investigation into alleged corruption …
Read More »EP-Vice MEP Eva Kaili arrested in Brussels on suspicion of corruption
+++Socialist MEP and Vice President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili has been arrested by Belgian authorities on corruption suspicion related to Qatar, Belgian media,, French AFP and Greek state-run news agency amna report late on Friday. Citing a source with knowledge of the case AFP reported Kaili’s arrest after …
Read More »Greece’s steps to curb tax evasion by short-term rentals
Greece’s Finance Ministry will take to curb tax evasion and the concealment of income earned by short-term rentals Airbnb-style, while seeking in the process to increase the protection of tourism enterprises from unfair competition. The ministry is determined to use all means available to restrict such phenomena and, if necessary, …
Read More »Greece to take another step against notorious tax evasion
Greece’s Independent Public Revenues Authority, AADE, will tighten its fight against the notorious tax evasion and will expand the use of electronic payments through POS to more professionals. AADE has reportedly assumed a series of initiatives which start to unveil one after the other which significantly limit the action space …
Read More »Storm EVA hits Piraeus and the Cyclades islands (videos, picts)
Streets in the port of Piraeus turned into rivers and a garbage bin took a lonesome ride between cars and their motorists struck in the waters, as storm EVA reached Attica on Sunday. The storm affected mainly the south suburbs and meteorologists had warned of flooding phenomena. It needed just …
Read More »Retail stores closed on Sunday, Nov 6 due to Storm Eva
The General Secretariat of Trade & Consumer Protection revoked on Saturday a decision to open retail stores throughout the country Sunday, November 6, due to storm EVA. The opening, which is optional and not mandatory, was moved to next Sunday, November 13, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., the secretariat …
Read More »Watch STORM EVA Live – Civil Protection instructions
Storm EVA has already started to affect Greece and rainfalls have been recorded in the Ionian islands and parts of the West of the country since Saturday morning. Watch Live STORM EVA Saturday noon, the National Meteorological Service EMY has updated its RED ALERT emergency bulletin from Thursday, however, there …
Read More »Storm EVA: 112 Alert sent to residents of Ionian islands, other regions
An emergency 112 alert message was sent per sms to residents of the northern Ionian Islands and Epirus, warning them of dangerous weather conditions from the early morning hours of Saturday, November 5, 2022. The Alert message called on residents to avoid unnecessary travel unless absolutely necessary. Short after 8 …
Read More »Hipparchus’ oldest map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment
First known map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment. Fabled star catalogue by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been feared lost. A medieval parchment from a monastery in Egypt has yielded a surprising treasure. Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have discovered what seems to be part of the …
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