A criminal investigation into suspected embezzlement and money laundering has shown that two high-ranking clerics of the Catholic Church in Greece have been “investing” in nightclubs for the last eight years. The investigation was triggered after a routine audit showed a shortfall of 3 million euros in the coffers of …
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Tax officers in Corfu arrested for extorting money from local businessmen
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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Predator scandal: USA imposes sanctions on Greek enablers of Intellexa spyware
The US has imposed sanctions on five individuals and one entity involved in the Intellexa Consortium, which sold the illegal Predator spyware in Greece, found in dozens of phones, including those belonging politicians, journalists and businesspeople. The sanctioned individuals include key figures involved in Greece’s wiretapping scandal, which became known …
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Wiretapping scandal: Supreme Court investigation finds no connect between Predator & Intelligence Service
Greece’s Supreme Court ruled that there was no connection between spyware Predator or other similar software and State services, including the national intelligence service (EYP), the special anti-terrorist unit (DAEAEV) and the Greek police (ELAS) in general. Τhe ruling followed an investigation conducted by the Supreme Court into the wiretapping …
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Football VIPs to enjoy “top priority” in ER of Athens public hospital
Fcking Unbelievable! Greece imposes new criteria for priority treatment in Emergencies of public hospitals. The new criterion is no longer the patient’s state of health but …the hotel where he stays. The decision for top priority treatment of VIP guests at the Conference League Cup in the ER of Evaggelismos …
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E-mails scandal: Dozens of expats and Diaspora Greeks seek compensation
Dozens of expats and diaspora Greeks have filed lawsuits against the Greek interior ministry, seeking compensation after the data protection scandal where a MEP used e-mail lists without authorization after she illegally obtained them. Each one of the 30 in total – and so far – plaintiffs seek a compensation …
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E-mails scandal ousts a ND MEP, the head of Diaspora Greeks and a Secretary General
The scandal of data protection violations regarding Greek voters living abroad triggered a domino of political developments in the country. MEP of New Democracy Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou has been forced to abstain from the list of candidates for the upcoming European elections, the general secretary of the Interior Ministry Michalis Stavrianoudakis …
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Greece’s chief prosecutor says he would have stopped audit into communications company
In an interview at the Delphi Economic Forum,the chief prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court, Isidoros Dogiakos,said on the wiretapping scandal, that had he knew the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission (ADAE) was checking biggest telecommunications company in the country, the OTE, he would had prevented it. “The opinion of the prosecutor of …
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EU Commision Vice Dombrovskis slams Greek gov’t over spyware scandal
EU Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis slammed on Tuesday the Greek government over the use of spyware against citizens while simultaneously revealing that the executive is still waiting for an explanation about the export licenses of Predator spyware to Sudan and Madagascar. “This kind of spying on fellow citizens and political …
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Wiretapping Predator: Authorities raid 6 companies connected to spyware
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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Wiretapping: Leader of PASOK-KINAL appeals to ECHR
Leader of Greece’s socialist PASOK-KINAL party, Nikos Androulakis, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on Monday over the wiretapping of his mobile phone. Androulakis appealed to the ECHR for the wiretapping of his mobile phone, complaining that he was not given the opportunity to be officially informed of …
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Mitsotakis dismisses newspaper wiretapping claims as “shame and disgrace”
A newspaper report claiming more than 30 people, including ministers and business-people, were under state surveillance via phone malware has been dismissed as lacking any evidence by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “There is absolutely no evidence and there is no connection with me,” Mitsotakis said of the article, which appeared …
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Greece to ban sale of spyware amid wiretapping scandal
Greece will soon ban the sale of spyware, the government said on Monday, after a newspaper report that more than 30 people, including ministers and business people, had been under state surveillance via phone malware. A list of persons whose phones were allegedly infected with the Predator malware was published …
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Explosive device goes off at minor’s pimp’s home; more warrants
An explosive device went off at the entrance of the apartment building in the neighborhood of Agios Panteleimonas on Sunday, where the 53-year-old pimp, the main suspect in the case of the sexual abuse and pandering of the 12-year-old girl in Kolonos used to live. The man man has been …
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Pedophilia scandal: Police officer under investigation, priest in hospital
A priest of Athens was rushed to the hospital on Thursday as people close to him found him passed out at his home. According to information from the church issues website, ekklisiaonline.gr, the name of the priest was involved in the scandalous case of the 12-year-old girl that was forced …
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Pedophilia scandal: Victim’s mother arrested, two defendants remanded custody
In a last minute development of the horror case of sexual exploitation of a 12-year-old girl in Athens, police arrested the victim’s mother on Wednesday afternoon. She is being accused of pandering. Earlier today, the two defendants in the pedophilia scandal that shakes Greece, a 53-year-old man and a 42-year-old, …
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Massive “revenge porn” scandal in Patras discovered
A massive ‘revenge porn” scandal with over 1,000 pictures and videos of reportedly 141 victims, residents of Patras, has been discovered. Two men have been identified as organizers of the illegal material that is shared via an application for mobile phones. No arrest has been made so far. Men can …
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SIEMENS scandal: Court of Appeals acquits 20 Greek and German executives
The Five-Judge Court of Criminal Appeals fully acquitted 20 out of 22 people of money laundering charges in the context of the SIEMENS scandal in Greece. For most of the defendants, the prosecution was terminated due to the statute of limitations. The twenty people involved in the Siemens kickbacks case …
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Wiretapping in Parliament: Long “debate” but no answers; opposition wants PMs’ resignation
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated on Friday that the “legal surveillance” of MEP and leader of socialist opposition party PASOK/KINAL Nikos Androulakis by the National Intelligence Service EYP was “a mistake.” Speaking at the Parliament debate on the wiretapping scandal, the PM added, however, that EYP’s operation is essential …
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Outcry forces gov’t spokesman to half-apologize for targeting Politico correspondent
Greece’s government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou spoke out a halfhearted apology for having targeted and discredited the POLITICO correspondent in Greece, Nektaria Stamouli, who is also the president of the Foreign Press Association in the country. Oikonomou could not help but to correct his previous statements after an outcry by local …
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