Tag Archives: extortion

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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Police arrested seven tax officers including the director and deputy director of a branch in Halkida for setting up a criminal organization that extorted local businessmen. Police officers handcuffed the director, the deputy director and five employees after a check carried out by a group of internal affairs officials following …

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A high-ranking officer of the Greek Police in Chania, Crete, was remanded in custody following his seven-hour testimony to an investigator and a prosecutor. The 53-year-old officer, a native of Chania has been charged with felony charges such as repeated extortion, bribery of an employee, and breach of duty. He …

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Two Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) employees, a Finance Ministry employee and an employee in the Bank of Greece were arrested in Athens on Monday over bribery and extortion charges, the Greek police department announced on Tuesday. According to a statement released on Tuesday, the case involved a 68-year-old accountant, her …

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Despite the harsh austerity the extortion of public money continues without end. It is only a matter of …coincidence that law breakers are caught. At the same time, thousands of Greece’s needy, chronic ill and low pensioners see their income sharply decreasing and are deprived of medicine, as the health …

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One of the many Greek miracles! A man has been receiving  a 700-euro allowance on a monthly basis for being 100% blind. “What’s wrong with that?” one may ask. Nothing would be the answer  if the man wasn’t a local champion in pool billiard! The man, who also happens to …

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I really didn’t know that Greece had such a healing climate. Apparently it does. And thus with the effect that blinds can see, and paralyzed can walk. This can be the conclusion when one reads the news about the scandal of ‘fake disabled’ Greek fraudsters who used to extort real social …

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