The local society of Agios Konstantinos of Agrinio is shocked by the news of a student who stabbed his mother because she told him to turn the TV off. The crime occurred at 2.20 after midnight when, according to preliminary information, the third grade senor high school student stabbed his mother to death. It all [...]
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Greek Offshore Companies Audited
The Inter-regional Audit Center in Athens (DEK Athens) is closely inspecting 218 offshore companies, resulting from a document forwarded to the Parliament by Deputy Finance Minister George Mavraganis, after questions from SYRIZA MP’s. The MP’s invoked the ICIJ (International Consortium Investigative Journalists) research and stressed out that only four out of the 107 Greek companies [...]
Suspect in Russian Boy’s Stabbing Detained
Dutch hotel employee in Hersonissos, Crete, Cirino Schrijver, who was accused of the violent attack on the 12-year-old Russian boy Nikita, was arrested and transferred to a special detention facility where he will receive psychiatric treatment until his trial. The 20-year-old allegedly stabbed Nikita twenty times last week after stealing his laptop and mobile phone. [...]
Supreme Court Appoints Corruption Chiefs
Greece’s highest court has appointed two new financial prosecutors to replace the outgoing investors Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis who have been digging into a slew of scandals and produced cases against high-level former government officials. Panayiotis Athanasiou, who has in the past investigated the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal, will become the main financial prosecutor. Galinos [...]
Greece’s Muslims Cite “Slaughter” Threat
The Muslim Association of Greece (MAG) said that it has received a threatening note giving all Muslims, Greeks and foreigners, one month’s time to evacuate the country or be “slaughtered like chickens,” according to a statement released by the association on May 18. The note, published on the association’s webpage, is written in Greek, English [...]
Cretan Pedophile Coach Gets 220 Years
A 48-year-old Cretan school gym teacher, Nikos Siragakis, convicted of repeated sexual abuse of 53 minors in the port of Rethymno was sentenced to 220 years in prison by a Pireaus court on May 17, stripped of his right to vote and to stand in elections for five years. The court found he abused his [...]
Two Greeks Arrested In Racist Attack
With attacks against immigrants in Greece unrelenting, police arrested two Greek men on suspicion of attacking a Cameroonian national and setting fire to his coffee bar in a central Athens neighborhood that has become a flashpoint of racist violence. The two, both 34, appeared before a prosecutor on May 16. Police spokesman Christos Parthenis said [...]
Greece To Adopt IRS Methods
With antiquated record keeping, court cases backed up a decade, and tax cheats still running rampant during a crushing economic crisis, Greece is planning to use the same kind of cross-referencing and collection techniques that make the American Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the most efficient – and feared – in the world, although it’s now [...]
Larissa Bank Robbed of € 1 m.
Two armed men broke into the National Bank’s branch in Larissa’s central square around 08.30 a.m. and threatening the employees managed to get away with an amount of almost €1 million. The perpetrators -one tall and the other short, according to bank employees- entered from the rear side door which was open. With guns and [...]
Russian Boy Stabbed by Dutch Animateur Paralyzed
The 11-year-old Russian boy who police said was stabbed by a 20-year-old Dutchman working at a holiday resort in Hersonissos, Crete, as a children’s entertainer is being hospitalized at the intensive care unit of the Children’s Hospital Aglaia Kyriakou. Two of the 20 stabbings he received are the most severe, located in the spine between [...]
Ex-SDOE Chief Copied Lagarde List
A former head of the Greek Financial Crimes Squad SDOE- refuting his own earlier testimony – has told a parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that he was under the impression it couldn’t be used to vet for possible tax cheats. Yiannis [...]
Father Confesses to Daughter’s Abuse
The tragic story took place in a village near Thessaloniki where the family lives. The 36-year-old father confessed that he had been sexually abusing his 16-year-old daughter for many years. The man who is an Albanian immigrant, was arrested and prosecuted. According to what is so far known, the 36-year-old is unemployed and was often [...]
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