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Former head of Greece’s Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) Yiannis Kapeleris was released unconditionally today, after facing prosecutors Christos Papakostas and Dimitris Kavalaris, over charges of breach of trust in connection with the "Lagarde list". Kapeleris, who headed SDOE when Giorgos Papakonstantinou...

The Hellenic Coast Guard (HCG) and the Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) in Greece are conducting investigations to locate another ton of heroin, hidden by suspects arrested last week. During last week’s large-scale operation, authorities seized 1.1 tons of...

The Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) of Greece has already conducted 500 inspections of cases in the notorious "Lagarde list." As reported violations were discovered in all 500 cases. The SDOE director Theodoros Floratos reported that so far about 25% of the...

The Financial Crime Unit (SDOE) is still finding more and more people who are stealing from the state through their profession by issuing bogus invoices or even not issuing receipts. Doctors, farmers, private sector employees and pensioners continue to...

More than 3 1/2 years after first receiving it, Greece is speeding the pace of looking into a list of 2,062 citizens with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts and after only 72 inspections has found the depositors...

As part of a full-scale operation conducted by the Greek Financial and Economic Crimes Unit (SDOE) targeting money laundering in the health sector, it was revealed that hundreds of physicians all over Greece were involved in tax evasion and...

All the defendants in the 13 year-old case of the Athens Stock Exchange share bubble were acquitted on grounds that fraud could not be established. The three-member court of appeals acquitted the 42 defendants after an eight month procedure that...

The anti-corruption prosecutor, Eleni Raikou has begun with the criminal prosecution of the former PASOK Minister Yiannos Papantoniou for inaccurate declaration of income, with felony charges for the year 2010 and misdemeanor for 2009. Mr. Papantoniou's wife, Stavroula Kourakou faces similar...

The Financial and Economic Crime Unit (S.D.O.E), after completing the first 150 audits of taxpayers who are included in the Lagarde list, has imposed penalty charges that exceed 50 million euros. The newspaper "TA NEA," invoking S.D.O.E sources claims that...

The prosecutor ordered an audit to be performed at the central offices of the Golden Dawn party.  The Financial and Economic Crime Unit (S.D.O.E) will do a thorough check on the books, the funding, and the expenses of the...