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TEI Professor arrested for bribery & other “favors” to have students pass exams

October 3, 2018 Uncategorized Comments Off on TEI Professor arrested for bribery & other “favors” to have students pass exams

Police has arrested a professor at a Technological Education Institute, a higher education public facility in Northern Greece for blackmailing students in order to pass the lessons he was teaching and so with receive their diploma. The 59-year-old man would either ask for either a special fee under the hand …

Rouvikonas anarchists threaten hospital doctor to “cut his hand off” if he takes bribes (fakelaki) again

October 25, 2017 Social 3

Members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas raided the office of a clinic director in Public Hospital Evaggelismos in downtown Athens on Wednesday. Accusing him of taking money under the hand (fakelaki) by patients, they threatened him they “would cut his hand off” if he would do it again. In a …

Public hospital overcomes material shortage via “donations” to be used “for donors only”

June 6, 2016 Society 3

Inspector units from the Ministry of Health paid a visit to AHEPA university hospital on Monday. It wasn’t a routine or courtesy visit. A prosecutor had ordered an investigation in the practices of the hospital in Thessaloniki and is awaiting the inspectors’ results. Workers at the biggest hospital of Northern …

Patient who accused surgeon for bribe dies after delayed heart operation; prosecutor investigates

July 16, 2014 Society 2

An in-depth investigation has been launched into the death of a public hospital patient who accused a heart surgeon of demanding bride for a life-saving surgery. The 67-year-old man died on Monday after an open heart surgery performed by another surgeon. However the quadruple bypass was apparently much too late …

Scandal! Greece turns ‘fakelaki’-bribes legal through law provision

April 15, 2013 Politics 1

Unprecedented! Greece passed a law that legalizes the bribes asked by doctors and civil servants. These bribes are commonly called ‘fakelaki’ (little envelope) as the citizens tend to hand them over in an envelope. The law provision was submitted in March to the Greek parliament by professor Yiannis Panousis, MP …

Greek Surgeon detained for 500 euro “Fakelaki”

March 28, 2011 Economy 2

A state hospital surgeon was arrested Monday afternoon in Thessaloniki and is to be charged with ‘ passive corruption” for taking 500 euros for a surgery. According to a complain filed by a patient’s wife the surgeon had demanded 500 euro ‘fakelaki’ in order to operate her husbands. The wife had informed …

Austerity hits Greek Corruption, too – Fakelaki Price List in times of Recession

March 15, 2011 Economy Comments Off on Austerity hits Greek Corruption, too – Fakelaki Price List in times of Recession

IMF /EU imposed austerity measures have hit not only employees, pensioners and entrepreneurs. The strong recession also dumped the prices in the corruption prices lists. Doctors and Tax officers saw themselves forced to lower the prices for infamous but famous Greek fakelaki* as their ‘customers’ declared economic unable to be as generous as …

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