Greece
Crime
Match-fixing Trial Postponed Until November 7 as Courtroom Deemed too Small for 84 Defendants
The trial of the 84 people charged for being involved to a football match-fixing racket has been postponed until November 7 due to a lack of space in the courtroom. The affair concerns allegations that at least 40 matches...
Economy
Prosecutor Wants Olympiakos Chief to be Jailed Pending Trial for Match-Fixing
Greek shipowner and Olympiacos football club manager Vangelis Marinakis, aged 49, has been ordered to stand trial over charges of creating a criminal ring and football match fixing. Prosecutor Stamatis Daskalopoulos has pressed charges on Marinakis and dozens more...
Greece
Olympiacos to Play in Champions League Despite Match-Fixing Allegations
UEFA said that Olympiacos Piraeus FC will play in Champions League despite match-fixing allegations by rivals Panathinaikos, who appealed to CAS.
Olympiacos will be on Thursday's draw for the Champions League groups after football's highest court, the Court of Arbitration...
Crime
Olympiakos Owner Marinakis Charged with Match-Fixing and Other Offenses
Greek Super League champions Olympiakos Piraeus owner Evangelos Marinakis was charged by prosecutors with a series of alleged offenses including match-fixing.
Marinakis, 47, a Greek shipping magnate, has owned Piraeus' hometown team Olympiakos since mid-2010, while he also served as president of...
Crime
Greek Court Finds Psomiadis Guilty of Match-Fixing
Makis Psomiades was convicted to four and a half years imprisonment for attempted blackmail and bribery by a Greek court. The 58-year-old businessman and former Chairman of Kavala soccer club was cleared of the more serious charges of leading...
Greece
Soccer Club Owner in Match-Fixing Scheme Gets Off Again
ATHENS – A businessman and soccer club owner who had been on the run for two months after being charged with fixing games before being apprehended will be let go after a judge declared there was not enough evidence...
Greece
Platini to Discuss Match-Fixing with Greek PM
European football chief Michel Platini will meet Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou here next Tuesday to discuss progress on the ongoing investigation into match-fixing in Greek football.
The Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which is responsible for professional sports...
Greece
68 People Named in Football Match-Fixing Scandal
68 people from the football world have been charged with a variety of offences including illegal gambling, fraud, extortion and money laundering. The culture minister, Giorgos Nikitiadis, described the alleged scandal as "the darkest page in the history of Greek football", but promised...
Greece
Olympiakos Piraeus President Suspect in Match-Fixing Scandal
Super League and Olympiakos Piraeus President Vangelis Marinakis and Greek defender Avraam Papadopoulos were identified by the Athens prosecutor on 24th June for their alleged involvement in match-fixing, as the list of those implicated in the scandal that has...
Greece
Police Announce Arrests in Greek Match-Fixing Probe
Nine people have been arrested in connection with a probe into match-fixing in Greek football, police announced on Wednesday.
Police conducted an extensive search at suspects' homes following an investigation by Greek judicial authorities in the last few months over...
Crime
Greek Football Officials Facing Charges over Rigged Games Scandal
The biggest football scandal in Greece, dubbed "Koriopolis", is finally reaching the courts following 6 years of police investigations, leaked wiretapping and endless judicial maneuvering.
Twenty-eight officials of Greek football, including Olympiakos club president Vangelis Marinakis, are being ordered to...
Greece
Greek Companies Reopen During Economic Crisis
The huge economic crisis that has struck Greece has resulted in the lockage of small and large businesses, however other historic Greek brands have been reborn and given new leases of life under new ownership. A revival of sorts...
Greece
Greek State Council Examines Legality of TV License Auction on Wednesday and Friday
The Greek State Council, the highest administrative court of the country, is set to convene on Wednesday and Friday to review the constitutionality of the recent competition that the government had carried out to limit the number of national...
Greece
PAOK Wins at Liberec While Olympiakos, Panathinaikos Face Losses
On Thursday night there was a shake-up in the arena of soccer in Greece as Cypriot APOEL beat Olympiakos in Piraeus 1-0, which moved up the team 6 points.
Just 10 minutes into the game the Cypriot team scored thanks...
Crime
Greek Prosecutor Deposed for Offending Supreme Court President
Head Prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Prosecution Isidoros Doghiakos was deposed for offending the President of Greece's Supreme Court, Vassiliki Thanou.
After the decision of the Secondary Disciplinary Board that became public late Wednesday afternoon, Doghiakos lost his position as...