Law

A 50-year-old mother of two sons from Melbourne, with different personalities, lost more than $7.8 million of her employer’s money to gamble online and has been sentenced to eight years. Wendy Hope Jobson, pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court...

The Vice-President of the Piraeus Lawyers Association Constantinos Resvanis jumped to his death from the fifth floor of his office building on April 30, officials said, adding that he was facing severe financial problems and had attempted suicide in...

The coach of the Greek football club PAOK, Giorgos Donis was dismissed on April 29, as PAOK announced, after the team was eliminated in the Greek Cup semi-finals by Asteras Tripolis on April 27. According to sources, Donis has sent...

Three supervisors charged with shooting and wounding 29 immigrant workers on a strawberry farm in the Peloponnese of Greece, along with the fruit company's owner, went before a magistrate on April 22 as the government said it would offer...

The first morning hours of 11 April 2012, the Public prosecutor Popi Papandreou rang the bell of the neoclassical house at Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, announcing the former Minister of Defense his arrest warrant for political money laundering. Akis Tsochatzopoulos...

Alket Rizai, a 36-year-old notorious Albanian convicted of murder, appeared before the judges of the Five-Member Court of Appeal for Felonies of Athens, on April 17, to be tried over a helicopter escape from Korydallos prison in 2009. The case...

The Greek Parliament’s March 6 vote declaring that the traditional method of passing bribes in small envelopes called “fakelaki” may not be unlawful because they are just Greeks way of saying thanks for favors is continuing to spark reaction. The...

In a move seen only in regimes like Syria, Iran and North Korea, the Greek government tried to close down Indymedia Athens, an anti-governmental website on April 11. The site operates with a team of volunteers who share expenses and...

With four simple regulations of Article 43, Law 4141, the Greek State provides a solution to the taxation problem for people of Greek descent. Those who have or can receive income in Greece,  will be able from now on...

Yannis Gerekos, a student from Komotini in northeast Greece, said he was heavily beaten because he refused to pay for not being given a receipt, following the Ministry of Development regulation that allows for customers in Greece not to...