Renowned Greek investigative journalist and publisher Kosta Vaxevanis revealed on Friday that he has received information claiming that he has been the target of a “death contract.” He published the shocking revelations on the website of his newspaper documentonews on Friday evening and “shared them with his readers in an …

Journalist and publisher of Documento newspaper  and Hot Doc magazine, Kostas Vaxevanis, was arrested on Monday after former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras filed a lawsuit against him for defamation. Vaxevanis was arrested the moment he was leaving the appeals court in Athens where judges acquitted him on the charges brought …

Greek publisher and journalists Kostas Vaxevanis was briefly detained after  the wife of Greece’s central banker Yannis Sournaras filed a lawsuit against him for slander. A day earlier, Vaxevanis newspaper had alleged that Stournaras’ wife was using her husbands’ influence to acquire state contracts for the public relations company. A …

Journalist Kostas Vaxevanis will be tried again over the disclosure of the s0-called Lagarde-List containing the names of 2,059 Greeks with bank accounts at HSBC, Geneva branch. The editor of magazine HOT DOC will be on trial, after a prosecutor appealed the court decision that acquitted him on November 2nd …

 Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis has been acquitted by an Athens court on Thursday night in a trial that lasted almost ten hours. The prosecutor had raised charges against Vaxevanis for breaching privacy after he published the names of 2,000 suspected tax evaders in his magazine HOT DOC. Vaxevanis was arrested last Sunday. …

Greek Journalist Kostas Vaxevanis was arrested on Sunday morning at a friend’s home for publishing 2,059 names of Greek HSBC-account holders whose names were on so-called Lagarde-List.  The journalist wrote on his Twitter account during his arrest: “@KostasVaxevanis They’re coming in the house with a prosecutor now. They are arresting …

The Greek government on Wednesday denounced an attack against a journalist by a ship-owner during a football match in Athens. Giorgos Papachristos, an opinion writer and adviser at the daily Ta Nea, was attacked on Tuesday evening after the end of the first half of the football match between Panathinaikos …

Two years after the murder of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz on 9 April 2021, Greek Police have arrested two people with relations to the crime, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos announced on Friday. In a Facebook post, Minister Theodorikakos,  and not the Police as usually in such cases, said that “police …

I live in a country where a very wealthy Prime Minister who seems to have lost contact with reality and society tries to convince Greeks that “if you live in poverty and are barefoot, you can still smile!” During a visit to Ioannina, Epirus in North-West Greece, on Wednesday, PM …

A newspaper report claiming more than 30 people, including ministers and business-people, were under state surveillance via phone malware has been dismissed as lacking any evidence by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “There is absolutely no evidence and there is no connection with me,” Mitsotakis said of the article, which appeared …

Sunday newspaper Documento and its publisher Kostas Vaxevanis shake the political landscape in Greece, when they published a list of some 33 people whose mobile phones have been allegedly found to have trace of illegal spyware Predator. From a partial list as seen on the news paper’s front page, the …

Two former SYRIZA ministers and three prosecutors will face justice for two separate cases in connection with the TV licenses and the Novartis scandal, respectively. Ex minister for Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media, Nikos Pappas, will be summoned to appear before a special court that will be convened in the …

“No one can give a logical answer as to why my name was deleted from the translation of the FBI Novartis document,” PASOK-KINAL MP and former Health Minister Andreas Loverdos told Skai TV on Friday morning. It was one more of Loverdos’ statements after documentonews newspaper and koutipandoras website published …

Greece has fallen 38 positions within a year, in the Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders 2022 Report. From position 70. in the 2021 report, Greece ranks 108. in 2022. When it comes to Press Freedom, the country is now on the bottom of Europe lower even than Hungary …

A TV host and publisher has been been initially detained by police and later arrested and is accused for faking an armed attack at his own house after police withdrew protection he received as a private citizen. There have been also allegations of having taken out a contract on the …

Greece’s top court, the Council of State, has ruled that all tax evasion cases from the Lagarde list examined after December 31.2012 have to be written off. This could cost the state estimated 50 million euros that will have to return to tax payers. The CoS ruling rejected the Greek …

Corruptions allegations against Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform are  shaking the Greek political world, with Minister Giorgos Katrougalos to deny the allegations and the opposition to demand his resignation. According to Sunday newspaper To Vima, Katrougalos was representing as a lawyer fired civil servants and he had announced their rehiring …

A bribery “bombshell” shakes Greece, after Independent Greeks MP, Pavlos Chaikalis, claimed that he was offered two to three million euro in order to vote for Greece’s next President. The attempted bribery came by a private person. “I would be given  2-3 million euro in total, 700,000 euro in cash …

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A slap in the face of Greece is the annual report issued by independent organization Freedom House for the promotion of democracy and human rights. Greece received a downward trend due to “significant upsurge in right-wing violence, led by the Golden Dawn party, against immigrant groups, their supporters, and the …