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Together with Greek police investigator conducted a series of raids on the homes of individuals and on at least six companies connected to Predator spyware scandal on Tuesday. The raids were ordered by the prosecutor responsible for investigating the wiretapping and attempted tapping of telephones belonging to politicians, journalists, high-profile …

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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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Teams of the Greek Competition Committee have raids the headquarters of the four Greek systemic banks (National, Piraeus, Alpha and Eurobank), media report on Thursday. According to state broadcaster ERT TV, the offices of the Greek Banks Association have been raided as well. The raids reportedly aim to find evidence …

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Not ‘laughing gas’ but infection with meningitis was the reason an 18-year-old female tourist from UK fell in coma in Malia, Crete, last week. On Zakynthos and Corfu, police has arrested 17 people and seized more than 10,000 laughing gas bulbs in recent days as authorities are determined to crack …

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Units of internal affairs division of Greek police raided three police stations in the context of investigating infiltration of extreme-right Golden Dawn. Greek media report that on Tuesday noon, units of internal affairs division – the so-called “Untouchables – raided the police station of Nikaia, Kaminia and Renti, all suburbs …

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EU Commission inspectors raided oil and biofuel companies in two member states in terms of anti-trust practices. However, the relevant EU statement did not disclose neither the names of the countries nor of the companies. Official EU Commission statement dated May 14th 2013 “Αntitrust: Commission confirms unannounced inspections in oil …

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The raiding incidents against foreigners are shocking – especially when they are led by elected members of the Greek Parliament. Men in black raid the stands of foreign street vendors, no police is around to hinder them. They do it once, twice, a third time maybe… The incidents cause uproar, …

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Five men and two women were detained during a coordinated raid in two houses in Athens and Volos. A big ammunition arsenal including two Kalasnikov and eight pistols, was seized. Among the detainees are three men wanted by the Greek police on the suspicion of involvement  in the urban guerrilla group “Conspiracy of …

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