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Former US Senator for New Jersey Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, following his conviction on bribery and corruption charges. While he was leading the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee Menendez was defending the rights of Greece and Cyprus towards Turkey. He had blocked the sale …

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Four tax officers and one private accountant have been arrested on the island of Corfu on Friday. They had formed a corruption ring and were extorting taxpayers. Among those arrested is the deputy director of the Corfu tax office Greek police arrested the five gang members in raids in collaboration …

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The overwhelming majority of Greeks believe that corruption is widespread in the country and that this phenomenon has increased in the last three years. According to the Eurobarometer survey in 2024, Greece ranks first in corruption issues within the European Union. 98% of Greeks believe that there is corruption n …

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Almost at the bottom of the EU 27 member states is Greece on the Corruption Index 2023, with a shameful performance in the Corruption Perceptions Index. Greece ranked 24th among the 27 EU member states and 59th among 180 states. It scored below the baseline and is in the category …

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Dialogues between high-ranking officers of the Greek Police EL.AS. with bosses of criminal gangs were published by newspaper To Vima on Sunday.  According to the newspaper claims, a total of 27 police officers seem to have been involved in criminal activities offering protection to gangs mostly active in fuel trafficking. …

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+++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 …

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The overwhelming majority of Greeks believe that corruption goes unpunished and two in three Greeks believe corruption is “very important” and rarely punished, according to a public opinion poll by the National Transparency Authority (NTA) presented at the 1st Integrity Forum on Thursday. Results were based on 777 questionnaires completed …

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Greece has climbed one spot to 59th position among 180 countries in the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2020. Greece’s score also improved to 50 out of 100 points on the CPI survey. The group’s 2019 report gave Greece a score of 48, which put the country …

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The report Rule of Law 2020 by the European Commission identifies serious problems in Greece regarding the administration of justice, the pluralism in the media, the fight against corruption, the activities of lobbies as well as the protection of whistle-blowers. According to the report, Greece has adopted a significant number …

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The head of Athens Prosecutor’s Office ordered the criminal prosecution of the leading corruption prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki for a series of offenses, including abuse of power. Touloupaki was been investigating the Novartis bribery scandal. The corruption prosecutors will face charges of dereliction of duty, making false statements and breach of …

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Greek authorities have cracked down a network of corrupt police officers who were offering “protection” to brothels and illegal casinos. According to media, the network was offering protection to some 350 brothels, 250 studios and 300 illegal casinos in Attica and had a turnover of about 1 million euros per …

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Greece has significantly improved its corruption perception ranking in the index of Transparency International in 2019. The country scored 48 points out of 100 and was placed in 60th position. In 2018, Greece had scored 45 points and was on the 87th ranking position. Για το 2019, η Ελλάδα συγκεντρώνει …

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“Corruption is a national threat,” Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said on Monday on the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day. Speaking at the event “Technology and Transparency” organized by the National Corruption Authority, Mitsotakis said, among others: In 2012, Transparency International ranked Greece 94th in the list with the …

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Inspectors investigating corruption in Greece’s “Disease Control and Prevention Center” (KEELPNO) have found thousands of important documents in a room behind a plasterboard  wall in the offices in a suburb of North Athens, newspaper documento revealed on Sunday. The “secret depot” was discovered in an joint operation by public administration …

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Greece’s ranking on Transparency International list of corruption has improved in “Corruption Perception Index 2017” when the country ranked on position 59/180 and score 48/100 behind Saudi Arabia and Jordan. In 2016 Greece was holding position 69. According to survey findings, complains about instances of corruption decreased by 8.5% in …

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Arrogant, narrow-minded, superficial, full of low-level stereotypes, bias and hypocrisy… For one more time the leadership of the European Union exposed that what it seems a benevolent I-love-bella-Italia -attitude is nothing more than a deep rooted prejudice attitude of Central and North Europe towards the people of the European South. …

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Rapid developments in the scandal around Swiss pharmaceutical Novartis, as corruption prosecutor asks banks in Greece to open the accounts of ten politicians, former prime ministers and ministers, allegedly involved in the scandal as well as the accounts of their spouses and adult children. In a letter to all Greek …

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Greece needs to step up efforts to prevent corruption by lawmakers and judges and improve transparency of party financing, the Council of Europe said in two reports on Thursday. Greeks have suffered years of austerity brought on by a debilitating financial crisis that many blame on political corruption, a spendthrift …

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Former New Democracy Health Minister, Giorgos Sourlas, said he was offered kickbacks by a pharmaceutical company in order to market vaccines. Speaking to state ERT TV, the former minister said he was offered 500 million Drachmas* in order to market last generation vaccines for hepatitis. “It happened once, I was …

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An Athens prosecutor on Wednesday brought felony bribery charges against two consultants of a joint venture that served as technical advisers for the construction of the Athens metro. According to athensnewsagency, “the charges were filed against the manager of consulting company OMEK and the head of engineering company Lahmeyer and …

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