September 12, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
High-ranking Hellenic Coast Guard officers have been appearing before the Greek Ombudsman since Monday over the fatal shipwreck off southern Greece in June 2023. The process is expected to be completed on September 20, with the examination of the coast guard head himself, Vice Admiral Georgios Alexandrakis. The process is …
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October 23, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greek intelligence and security officials are worried that the recent events in Israel and Gaza might trigger violent events, including terrorist attacks, in the country. An eight-page classified document shown to Kathimerini describes the activities of four Palestinian organizations in Greece and of seven “persons of interest” with alleged ties …
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August 3, 2023
Greece, Politics
Some conclusions are reportedly emerging from an administrative inquiry (EDE) confirming that the explosions at the ammunition depot on a Hellenic Air Force base last Friday in central Greece were caused by the general-purpose air-to-ground bombs (iron bombs) stored in above-ground facilities that were exposed to the heat load of …
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December 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The public prosecutor in Lamia, central Greece, ordered an inquiry into the death of a 14-year-old girl who died after contracting Covid-19 and passed away in less than a week. The girl was treated at home and was taken to the hospital when it was already too late. The parents …
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September 14, 2021
Very Mix
Authorities in Greece Tuesday opened an investigation into the crash of a private Cessna aircraft from Israel that killed a prosecution witness in the corruption trial of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The plane crashed in the sea off the island of Samos on Monday evening, as it was …
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June 22, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
A Supreme Court prosecutor on Tuesday ordered a probe into leaks of sensitive personal material, the diary of Caroline Crouch who was murdered by her husband in the family home in Glyka Nea on May 11. The diary is part of ongoing investigation into the murder. In a letter to …
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January 19, 2021
Sports
Deputy Minister of Sports Lefteris Avgenakis announced on Tuesday that he was suspending all funding to the Greek Sailing Federation and ordering an audit of its board members’ assets, as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual assault, mismanagement and corruption by senior officials. The suspension will last until …
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November 8, 2019
Economy
Greece’s Competition Committee, an independent authortity, confirmed on Friday that it had raided all the country’s major banks a day earlier as part of an investigation into collaboration between lenders. Inspectors raided the head offices of National, Piraeus, Alpha, Attica and Eurobank, along with the offices of the Greek bank …
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October 9, 2019
Greece
The Greek Parliament approved the proposal of New Democracy to set up a special investigation committee to probe former Alternate Justice Minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos (SYRIZA). The committee will probe into Papangelopoulos’ possible involvement in crimes related with the Novartis case. The former SYRIZA minister has been accused of interfering and …
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September 19, 2019
Greece
New Democracy has decided to propose an ad hoc parliamentary committee to investigate the actions of former Alternate Justice Minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos (SYRIZA) in connection with the Novartis probe. The ex minister speaks of “political persecution.” The ruling party has also decided to avoid investigation into former Prime Minister, Alexis …
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August 30, 2019
Greece
A prosecutor dropped the probe into governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, after finding no evidence linking him to claims by the former government in connection with the Novartis bribes scandal. The shelving Thursday of a legal suit against him involving Swiss drugmaker Novartis, officially ended a “brazen …
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March 20, 2019
Greece, Politics
Swiss Pharmaceutics conglomerate Novartis AG said that its own internal investigation found no evidence of bribery to Greek state officials, Bloomberg reports on Wednesday. Novartis didn’t receive preferential pricing from the Greek state and to date has been unable to identify any “inappropriate payments” to government officials, a local spokesperson …
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October 20, 2018
Refugees
Internal administrative investigation against four policemen had been launched for the incident in Moria camp, Greek Police announced Saturday afternoon. Ανακοίνωση σχετικά με εντολή διενέργειας Ε.Δ.Ε. σε βάρος τεσσάρων αστυνομικών για περιστατικό στο ΚΥΤ Μόριας Λέσβου, ανάκληση στις Υπηρεσίες τους & θέση σε διαθεσιμότητα ενός εξ΄ αυτών ▶https://t.co/UbhMMSPhNT — Ελληνική …
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October 8, 2018
Greece, Politics
The prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court has launched an inquiry into alleged mismanagement of EU Funds given to Greece for handling the migration crisis. The investigation follows reports and claims in Greek press. Supreme Court Public Prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou on Monday ordered the start of a preliminary investigation into press …
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March 13, 2018
Economy
Piraeus Bank property deals involving managers including former Chairman Michalis Sallas may have cost the bank 6.4 million euros ($7.9 million), according to a report by Greece’s Anti Money-laundering Authority. In the report, a copy of which was reviewed by Bloomberg, the regulator said it looked at the bank’s sale …
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April 13, 2017
Greece, Politics
Greece’s parliament on Wednesday voted to open an investigation into alleged health scandals and corruption going back two decades, involving bribes and inflated prices for medical equipment and medicine. A broad majority of 187 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament approved a government proposal to look into suspected mismanagement between 1997 …
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March 24, 2017
Greece, Politics
Greece’s corruption prosecutor Eleni Raikou submitted her resignation on Friday claiming she was being targeted by “unofficial power centres” due to her investigation of alleged extensive bribery of state officials by the pharmaceutical firm Novartis. Eleni Raikou has been holding this position since 213. Greece’s Corruption Prosecutor Eleni Raikou resigned …
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November 5, 2016
Very Mix
Powerful businessman Andreas Vnenopoulos died of heart arrest at 3:30 am on Saturday. He was 63 years old. He was the chairman of Marfin Investment Group and Marfin Popular Bank, Health group Ygeia (Hospital), major shareholder of Panathinaikos FC, owner of Oympic Air and a fencer. He was a lawyer …
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March 8, 2015
Politics
The front page of Sunday newspaper Real news sent shock waves across the country and most of all to Greek political world. Citing a document issued by then Anti-Corruption prosecutor, the Real News said that former finance Minister Gkikas Hardouvelis was been investigated for having transferred money abroad in the …
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January 2, 2015
Very Mix
Six days after the marine tragedy of Norman Atlantic and the number of missing person still varies largely. According to Italian news network Tg5, while the prosecutor in Bari said on Friday that the missing were 90, Greeks put the number of missing at 18. “The same names are with …
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