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Spiros Latsis and the Prince of Bahrain Talk Business

Even though the financial crisis has hit Greece, the business discussions still exist. Every day, rich men arrive in our country in order to discuss or think about their investments. At the end of September, the Prince of Bahrain...

Meet the Greeks in Forbes' List of Billionaires

Four Greeks have been included in a list of the world’s billionaires in 2018 released by Forbes. The 2,208 men and women are from 72 countries and territories, and, together, they are worth $9.1 trillion. The top 20 alone are...

Tsipras and Tsakalotos Served Legal Summons Over Hellenikon Deal

A bailiff appeared in Greek Parliament on Thursday to deliver a legal summons to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos. The action was taken by leftist war hero Manolis Glezos, NGL/GUE MEP Nikos Hountis, former deputy...

Meet the Four Greeks Who Made It to Forbes' Billionaires List for 2018

The World's Billionaires list is an annual ranking that is based on documented net worth of the wealthiest billionaires in the world compiled and published by the American business magazine Forbes. The 2018 list published by Forbes had four Greek...

Greeks Who Made It on the 2016 Forbes Richest List

Forbes magazine published its list with the richest people in world for 2016. For the specific list, the Forbes' team tracked 1,810 billionaires, whose total value is worth $6.48 trillion. This year, 10 Greeks from around the world made it...

Greek Minister of Transparency Vows to Fight Corruption

Panagiotis Nikoloudis is not a politician, however he was appointed by the new leftist SYRIZA-led government to fight one of Greece's major plights: corruption. The supreme court prosecutor who is now Minister of Transparency and Anti-Corruption is a specialist in economic crime...

Illegally Built Athens Mall to be Legalized

Although the State Council had announced that the construction of "The Mall Athens" -- the biggest shopping center in the Balkans -- is illegal and unconstitutional, the Greek government found a way to legalize it. More specifically, the Interministerial Committee for...

Tsipras on New Greek Bank Recapitalization

The bill on the renewed recapitalization of Greece’s banks may be tabled at the Greek parliament as soon as this week, according to Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) officials, after a meeting was held at the Greek Finance Ministry...

Greek Expat's 150,000 Euros Wire Transfer Blocked

Greek bureaucracy has once again left people speechless with its love of the rule-book. The Greek Croesus Artistotelis Mistakidis appears to be its newest victim. Greek authorities are just now slowly recovering from the Lagarde list scandal. There may...

Billionaire Kaltsidis Loves Koroni

Filaret Galchev, known as Filaretos Kaltsidis in Greece, is considered to be the richest Greek with his fortune estimated at around $6.7 billion, which would put him ahead of Spiros Latsis in the Forbes magazine list of the world's...

Three Greeks On Forbes Rich List

The annual list of the world's richest people published by Forbes magazine this year shows three Greeks are among them, headed by banker and shipping leader Spiros Latsis, 66, and his family, who rose in the ranking to the...