Leandros Rakintzis

All Greece was shocked when the case of the fake doctor, who ran Skyros hospital for 13 years, went public. Ioannis Kastanis had applied for the job submitting fake degrees, validated by Greek authorities. The doctor became notorious for...

The great American convict Willie Sutton said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is.” And, of course, he was one-upped by Al Capone who said: “You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word and...

  Despite that the competent Greek Ministers anticipated the suspension of thousands of unfaithful civil servants, the General Inspector of Public Administration, Leandros Rakintzis, speaking on the Special Permanent Committee on Institutions and Transparency of the Greek Parliament, dismissed this...

Greece's health care insurance system EOPYY, which has a 1.2 billion euro ($1.54 billion) debt, is running amok with mismanagement, Public Administration Inspector Leandros Rakintzis, tasked with rooting out corruption and mismanagement, said, adding it's barely a legal operation. Rakintzis...

The ancient Greeks believed that the best could always be made of a bad situation, and the idea seems to apply to the country today. The serious economic crisis that Greece is experiencing has already had some positive results,...