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Greek Doctors Suspended for Bribery and Extortion Back to Work

Doctors who had been suspended for bribery or extorting money from patients are back in the National Health System under the new law according to which all public sector employees who were suspended by the previous government, will be...

Bribery Receiving Doctors Are Not Punished

Disciplinary councils in Greece are letting off easy doctors who have received briberies. At the same time, despite dozens of complaints about doctors who receive briberies, only 12 have been prosecuted in the last two years, according to data from...

Man Who Accused Doctor of Bribery Passed Away

The patient who accused the 60-year-old heart surgeon and director of Evangelismos Hospital, Greece, for bribery, passed away in the hospital. The 67-year-old man, whose story came to light last Thursday, passed away on Monday, July 14 in the Intensive...

Bribery Price List for Greek Doctors

Doctor bribery still remains an incurable disease for the Greek National Health System. The issue came up once again after a new case was detected on Thursday, July 10, at Evangelismos hospital in Athens, where a doctor was arrested for...

Prosecutors Raid Novartis Offices in Athens Over Bribery Allegations

Corruption prosecutors raided the offices of Swiss drug maker Novartis in Athens a few days ago as part of an ongoing investigation over bribery allegations, sources told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday. According to the same sources, the prosecutors...

Bribery Still Part of the Greek Health Sector

Up to 55.2% of the money paid by patients in Greek health sector establishments is not declared to the tax authorities. According to the General Inspector of Public Administration Leandros Rakintzis, one in three Greeks are still bribing doctors...

Greek Health Minister Voridis: Tougher Penalties for Reneger Doctors

His will to impose tougher penalties for offenses related to the health sector announced earlier today Greek Health Minister Makis Voridis, noting that instances of patients' blackmailing or doctors' bribery, which are currently categorized as misdemeanors, will be treated as...

Greek Inspector General Says Corrupt Doctors are Seldom Disciplined

Greek General Inspector of Public Administration Leandros Rakintzis said that the Central Disciplinary Council (CDC) of the national health system seldom punishes public doctors for offenses. Speaking to Greek newspaper "Kathimerini," the public administration watchdog said, "I have found serious delays in...

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...

Clinic Director Arrested for Bribery

A heart surgeon and department chief at public hospital Evaggelismos in Athens, Greece was arrested for bribery and attempted extortion. The 59-year-old surgeon was arrested on Wednesday after a complaint from a patient who was hospitalized after he suffered a heart attack. The doctors...

Greek Gynecologist Goes to Jail for Bribery

A gynecologist working in Filiates hospital was sentenced to a two years in prison for accepting a 300 euro bribery, or “fakelaki” (envelope) as the Greeks call it, in order to perform an unnecessary surgery to a 83-year old...

Latest Greek Doctor Scam

Ten public hospital doctors, also members of DePuy company, have been charged with fraud. The case concerns the supply of highly priced orthopedic products to the Greek State, supplied by the company Johnson & Johnson group. The Greek judicial authorities uncovered...

Four out of Ten Continue Bribing Doctors

The bribing of doctors by patients still exists in Greece. Four out of ten patients continue giving a bribe in order to be hospitalized in a public hospital, on their own initiative, or after the “request” of the doctors....

Greek Doctors Probed In Bribe Case

Looking for cash everywhere, Greece’s government is stepping up the fight against tax evasion and is investigating 11 state hospital doctors who couldn’t explain why they had 5.8 million euros ($7.75 million) in their bank accounts. The Financial Crimes Squad...

US Execs Face Greek Bribery Probe

Five business executives from the American firm Johnson & Johnson will come under investigation in Greece over allegations that a subsidiary company, DePuy, sold orthopedic equipment to Greek hospitals after bribing doctors. The newspaper Kathimerini reported that that magistrate Spyros...