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Mafia-style execution of businessman: Police focuses on his activities in Mykonos

A 54-year-old businessman was gunned down by a shooter on a motorcycle in the center of Psychiko suburb of northern Athens on Tuesday morning. The man, a civil engineer by profession, had worked as a land surveyor in Mykonos and other parts of the country. In 2021, he was severely …

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Two ministers and close aidees of PM Mitsotakis resign

Two ministers and close aidees of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis were forced to resign on Thursday, following a meeting with a powerful businessman. Minister of State Stavros Papastavrou and Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Ioannis Bratakοs submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday evening. The Prime …

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Mafia-style execution: Businessman shot, body found inside burning car

The charred body of well-known businessman Christos Gialias was found in a burning vehicle in the West Attica suburb of Mandra on Wednesday evening. A Kalashnikov weapon was also found inside the car. It is the second mafia-style execution since January 1, 2024. It was neighbors who alarmed the police …

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Greek businessman charged with smuggling military tech to Russia in NY

The United States on Tuesday announced charges in five cases involving alleged efforts to steal technology to benefit China, Russia and Iran including a former Apple Inc engineer and a Greek businessman. The cases detailed at a Justice Department press conference centered on allegations concerning the theft of trade secrets …

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Mother of businessman abducted 50 days ago appeals to kidnappers’ “humanity”

The mother of the businessman abducted 50 days ago has gone public with an appeal to the kidnappers as there has been not contact to them since quite some time. The 40-year-old man was abducted near his home in Drafi, eastern Attica, in the night of December 28, 2021. Speaking …

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Elderly businessman sets him on fire in downtown Pyrgos, south Peloponnese

An elderly businessman set himself on fire on the main street of the city of Pyrgos on Friday evening and died before passersby or firefighters and paramedics could offer any help. Eyewitnesses told local media, the 73-year-old man poured a liquid on himself and his clothes and set them on …

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Mafia-style assassination of foreign national in Voula, south Athens

A foreign national was assassinated outside his house in Voula suburb of southern Athens late on Friday. Police is investigating the real identity of the victim, after it found that he man had two different identity cards from Belgium as well as a large amount of cash. The man was …

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Notorious Greek-Australian crime figure gunned down in Athens

A Greek-Australian businessman was shot and killed in Panorama Voula suburb of south Athens short before 9 o’ clock on Wednesday night. According to preliminary media reports, the man had just got in his car parked outside his home, when he got shot by unknown perpetrator or perpetrators. The man …

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Police raid frees kidnapped Cretan businessman Lembidakis

The longest hostage situation in Greece has finally ended with success. Greece’s Police raided a    tow yard and freed Cretan businessman Michalis Lembidakis. He was held chained in an area four kilometers away from the city of Rethymnon on the way to Chania. The kidnappers held the businessman hostage for …

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Shop-owner beats tax officer conducting audits on Patmos island

A local shop-owner beat tax officers conducting audits on the island of Patmos, Dodecanese, on Saturday.  It needed the intervention of two ministers so that local authorities detain the perpetrator. The three tax auditors had arrived on the island of Apocalypse in the context a ‘tax evasion safari’ launched by …

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Turkish police chief, businessman arrested while trying to escape to Greece

A former police chief and a businessman from Istanbul have been detained near the borders as they were trying to escape Turkey purge and flee to Greece. M.G., a former police chief in Van province who was dismissed as part of post-coup crackdown on Gülen movement, was detained near Turkey’s …

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Prosecutors freeze bank accounts of famous Greek businessman

Chief financial prosecutor Panayiotis Athanasiou on Thursday ordered local lenders to freeze the bank accounts of businessman Andreas Vgenopoulos in connection to a probe regarding allegations of tax evasion. The order also called for Vgenopoulos to lose access to his safe deposit boxes. The move was part of a preliminary …

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UPD Kidnapped businessman M. Karamolegos freed, one kidnapper surrendered to police

Kidnapped businessman Manolis Karamolegos was released on Wednesday afternoon, at least two of the kidnappers has been arrested. P{Olice is seeking a third man. According to first information reported by the Greek media, the kidnapper-trio allegedly consists of a Greek and two foreign nationals, at least one of them Moldavian. …

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Athens: “Nazi” villa or private WWII museum?

Incredible police finding in a villa in south of Athens, Greece: window dolls in nazi uniforms, nazi helmets and flags, statues, swastika pennants and countless pictures of Adolf Hitler. In the premises of war museum of businessman Anastasios Pallis police found also six military aircraft, tanks, military vehicles and motorcycles …

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Guns cache in fugitive businessman’s home, authorities probe links with Golden Dawn

What do 20 weapons and 60 knives in the home of a businessman? Greek police was curious to know and raided the home of a fugitive businessman and thus in the context of extreme-right Golden Dawn investigation after a witness, a former officer of UK army,  claimed the man was …

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