Former chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA), retired General Michalis Kostarakos, passed away at the age of 67. After a prolonged battle with health issues, he passed away on Friday afternoon at the 424 Military Hospital in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Kostarakos held the position of GEETHA chief …
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Ex SYRIZA Minister, businessman guilty over TV license auction
In a unanimous decision Friday a Special Court found former SYRIZA minister Nikos Pappas guilty of dereliction of duty over the handling of a 2016 television license tender. Guilty was found also businessman Christos Kalogritsas for the crime of moral turpitude in the breach of duty of Pappas. The Special …
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Funeral of deposed king Constantine, a challenge for Greece
The funeral of former and deposed king of Greece, Constantine II, turned into a challenge, politically, mentally and physically. Members from royal families in eleven countries flew to Athens to pay their respects to the “private citizen” who was buried with no honors of a state leader officially but with …
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Constantine Glücksburg, ex king of Greece, dies at 82
Former king of Greece, Constantine Glücksburg, passed away at the age of 82 in a private hospital in Athens late on Tuesday. He was suffering from several health issues, and had been hospitalized in the past seven days. He had recently a brain stroke and a year ago he was …
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PM Mitsotakis, Prince Charles discuss in Dumfries House how to develop former Greek royal estate
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has traveled to Scotland on Tuesday, following an invitation by Charles, the Prince of Wales. At a meeting with the heir to the British throne in the Dumfries House in Ayrshire, they discussed ideas to develop the former royal estate at Tatoi in north-western Athens. …
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Former President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias, passes away
Former President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias passed away at the age of 92 on Sunday. Papoulias served two terms as president, from 2005 to 2015. He was a longstanding member of PASOK and held various ministerial appointments in his long political career, mainly in the Foreign Ministry and …
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Former Turkish deputy with HDP flees to Greece, seeks political asylum
A former lawmaker of pro-Kurdish party HDP fled Turkey and illegally cross into Greece. 44-year-old Leyla Birlik, a former Sirnak deputy with the Kurdish party HDP at the Turkish Parliament, sought political asylum fearing for her life. Turkey has banned her from traveling abroad after she was brought to trial …
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Ex Financial Crimes Units head sentenced for failing to investigate the “Lagarde List”
The former head of powerful financial crimes units (SDOE), Ioannis Diotis, was handed down a 10-year suspended sentence. He was convicted of failing to investigate information on the so-called “Lagarde list” containing more than 2,000 names of potential tax evaders. Ioannis Diotis was handed down a suspended 10-year sentence this …
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“I had agreed with Russia to give cash that would help with Grexit,” claims ex Syriza Minister
Panagiotis Lafazanis, energy minister in the first SYRIZA government, claimed he had agreed with Moscow in 2015 that Russia would make a down-payment for a gas pipeline so that the money could be used to finance rexit if the country would decide to leave the euro zone. Lafazanis told Vima …
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Ex Health Minister: If Greece bankrupts, women will become prostitutes and house-cleaners
Former Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis from conservative New Dimocracy was praising ex Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and attacking Prime minister Alexis Tsipras for being repsonsible of the ten plagues of Greece. Drawing with the darkest colors the impact of Tsipras’ policies he said that if the country bankrupcts, women will …
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Cyprus’ former President Glafkos Clerides dies at 94
Former president of Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides passed away early Friday evening at the age of 94. Glafkos Clerides was one of the most prominent personalities of Cyprus, who tried to unify the divided island and guided the country to European Union membership. Irony of the history. Glafkos Clerides passed …
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Athens court sentences ex Defence Minister to 8 years imprisonement, half million euro fine
A court in Athens sentenced former Defence Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos to 7+1 years imprisonment, a fine of 520,000 euro while it ordered the confiscation of his luxury real estate property, a three-storey building at noble Dionisioy-Aeropagitoy Street close to Acropolis. Akis Tsochatzopoulos, former powerful PASOK official stood trial on Monday morning …
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UPD Thessaloniki: ex mayor gets life sentence over €18 Million embezzlement
“With all respect, I repeat I have nothing to do with the case. I am sure some will die with regrets,” ex mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos told the Thessaloniki criminal court upon hearing the judge announcing his life sentence in prison. “However, it will not be us,” the presiding judge replied. For …
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Greeks protest outside ex Prime Minister’s Residence (video)
Some hundreds people gather Thursday afternoon in Athens downtown to protest outside the residence of former prime minister Costas Simitis. Anagnostopoulou street in noble district of Kolonaki was clogged by masses of old and young who shouted their frustration about the austerity measures. Lifting umbrellas and walking sticks they shouted slogan like …
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