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Greek State Officials Arrested For Blackmailing Businessman

Earlier today, Greek Police arrested two Financial Crime Unit (SDOE) officials, as well as an accountant, a Bank of Greece (BoG) employee and another Finance Ministry employee, following an entrepreneur's complaints that the five blackmailed him for several months in order to close their...

Fugitive Spends Eight Years as Monk in Mount Athos

Greek Police arrested a 48-year-old wanted convict yesterday, who had got three life sentences for a series of financial crimes against the State and had been hiding for at least eight years in Mount Athos' monastery cells, as a trainee...

Kidnapping Case Comes to an End in Athens

An end was given today at the kidnapping case of a 27-year-old university student that was kidnapped from Athens, Greece. The case has been kept under wraps until today. The girl was the niece of Asteras Tripolis football team owner Giannis...

Large Quantities of Cocaine Seized in Athens Suburb

Police have seized 230 kilos of cocaine in an apartment in the area of Voula, a southern Attica suburb in Greece. A 50-year-old Greek, a 25-year-old Mexican, as well as a 60-year-old Colombian national involved in this case, have...

'Mafia Style' Hit in Central Athens

  A 44-year old man was shot dead at around 4 a.m. this morning, when gunmen driving a 4X4 jeep, started firing shots at the man using a kalashnikov or MP5 gun. The victim was at a bar located at the...

Greek Police Evict Rebel Monks from Monastery Headquarters

AP - Dozens of Greek police have taken part in an operation to clear an apartment used as the headquarters of a rebel monastery whose monks have been declared schismatic by the Orthodox Church. Police said one monk and five...

Draconian Security Measures for Greek Parades

For the third consecutive year, thousands of police officers and strict security measures were deployed in order to shut down Athens’ and Thessaloniki’s centers for the parades commemorating the country’s heroic entry into World War Two. In both cities,...

Greek Police Bust Heroin Smugglers

A gang of Greek and Albanian drug smugglers were arrested in Athens and Thessaloniki on October 14, the Greek Police announced on Monday. After searching the homes of the suspects in Athens and Thessaloniki, police discovered 13.5 kilograms of pure heroin...

Pig's head, hate slogans at Athens Muslim center

AP - Greek police say unknkown attackers have placed a severed pig's head and painted anti-Muslim slogans outside an Islamic studies center in Athens. Nobody has been arrested over the pre-dawn attack Friday, at a building that also functions as...

Clinic Director Arrested for Bribery

The Director of the Gynaecological Clinic of "Agios Dimitrios" hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, was been arrested earlier this morning, as he demanded a payoff in order to proceed with one of his patient's surgery. The doctor, who asked for...