September 6, 2023
Society, Very Mix
A prosecutor in Piraeus pressed felony charges against four crew members including the ferry captain for the death of 36-year-old passenger Antonis Karyotis at the port of Piraeus a day earlier. The charges pressed late on Wednesday are for manslaughter as well as for violating articles of Greece’s Maritime Law. …
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August 24, 2023
FEATURED, Very Mix
The prosecutor in Alexandroupolis, northern Greece, on Thursday pressed charges on three men arrested for illegally detaining 13 migrants. He also pressed charges against their victims, though. The three men had forced the migrants into a trailer and uploaded a video on social media thus accusing them of starting wildfires …
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June 22, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Prosecuting authorities on Thursday noon with manslaughter, the main suspect for the violent death of Polish hotel worker Anastazja Rubinsky on the island of Kos. The 32-year-old man from Bangladesh was initially charged with kidnapping on Wednesday. However, authorities charged him in addition with manslaughter after a new video from …
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June 14, 2023
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
The management of Athens international airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” has installed an automatic system with tilting bars in the arrivals area, charging one euro per minute.. The aim is to charge the drivers of the cars waiting to pick up arriving passengers on domestic or international flights. According to newspaper citing …
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May 10, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Accumulation of fluid in the lungs, which caused pulmonary edema, was listed as the cause of death in the forensic report released on Wednesday for the 5.5-month-old baby girl that died after having been forgotten by her father in the car for several hours. The autopsy was carried out at …
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December 13, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
16-year-old Roma boy Kostas Fragoulis, shot in the head by a police officer on December 5, died on Tuesday morning Ippokratio General Hospital in Thessaloniki announced. For nine days, the teenager who was also a father of a baby, was struggling for life, intubated in the ICU. However, from the …
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August 1, 2022
Social, Society
Prosecutors brought additional murder charges against Roula Pispirigou on Monday for the deaths of her two younger daughters, 3.5-year-old Malena and 6-month-old Iris. Authorities point out at a modus operandi. Malena, Iris and first born Georgina, 9, died in a period of two and a half years under mysterious circumstances. …
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November 28, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A public prosecutor in Athens has pressed charges against 20 people spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic on internet and social media as well as inciting others to disobedience regarding protection measures. The Cuber-crime Division of the Greek police has submitted to the prosecutor two file cases on Friday, …
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November 11, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
“He had no scruple about his act although she was the mother of his child,” the prosecutor dealing with the murder of Caroline Crouch noted, among others, in his trial recommendation for 33-year-old husband Babis Anagnostopoulos. In his 21-page long recommendation to the Judicial Council, prosecutor Giorgos Noulis, proposed to …
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June 18, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
The husband of 20-year-old Caroline Crouch was charged on Friday for two felonies and two misdemeanor crimes, including the killing of the family dog, on Friday. According to prosecuting authorities the murder of his wife was “committed in a calm frame of mind.” Pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, also faces a …
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May 12, 2021
Social, Society
Prosecutor authorities pressed three felony charges against well-known Greek comedian Petros Filippidis on Wednesday. The 57-year-old actor is being accused with one rape and two to attempted cases of rapes. Filippidis denies the charges. The accusations came by three actresses. Investigation against the actor began with the assistance of the …
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July 23, 2020
Greece, Politics
Greek Parliament voted late on Wednesday to charge former SYRIZA Alternate Justice Minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos over allegations that he sought to incriminate political opponents in the purported Novartis pharmaceutical bribery scandal. 117 MPs from ruling New Democracy and opposition KINAL/PASOK voted to bring charges against Papangelopoulos that include breach of …
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December 2, 2019
Greece
The criminal prosecution against former New Democracy lawmaker Nikos Georgiadis for repeatedly paying minors for sex has been dropped due to the statute of limitations, in accordance with the new penal code. The prosecutor at the three-member court of appeals in Athens argued that she was obliged to accept the …
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November 12, 2019
Greece
Greece’s top corruption prosecutor ordered bribery charges against Movement for Change (KINAL) MP and former Health Minister, Andreas Loverdos. The charges part of the ongoing investigation into the alleged bribery scandal involving Swiss drugmaker Novartis. The felony charge follows a request submitted by the public prosecutor in August for Parliament …
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November 7, 2019
Economy
Teams of the Greek Competition Committee have raids the headquarters of the four Greek systemic banks (National, Piraeus, Alpha and Eurobank), media report on Thursday. According to state broadcaster ERT TV, the offices of the Greek Banks Association have been raided as well. The raids reportedly aim to find evidence …
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November 3, 2019
Economy
One after the other, the four Greek systemic banks announced the withdrawal of part of the extra charges for customer services that used to be free of charge. The National Bank, the Piraeus Bank, the Alpha Bank and the Eurobank declared that they will not charge a fee for the …
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October 26, 2019
Economy
Greeks pay more than 100 million euros per month to the banks in form of fees and commissions the lenders institutes charge for all possible kinds of services. According to published data of the four systemic banks (National, Piraeus, Eurobank and Alpha Bank) in the first half of the year, …
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October 24, 2019
Economy
Greek bankers have committed themselves to review their extra charges policies on a series of transactions following a meeting with Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Thursday. Citing government sources, media report that the prime minister told bankers that the government cannot accept extra charges on digital and other bank transactions, …
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October 11, 2019
Economy
Greek banks will impose charges on services that used to be free of charge until now. The charges on virtually all their services and customers’ transactions are an effort to offset their losses from interest rates taking, which have been in constant decline over the last few years, media report. …
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March 29, 2019
Greece, Politics
The economic prosecutors in Athens have pressed felony charges against 115 people, party officials and bank executives, for the loans conservative New Democracy and socialist PASOK received during 2005-2011. The non-performing loans amount over 400 million euros for both parties and were handed out without sufficient collateral, the prosecutors have …
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