Bulgaria-based phone scammers targeted elderly people in northern Greece
A Bulgaria-based criminal network that targeted elderly people in northern Greece through phone scams managed to make more than €600,000 from 41 victims, police said Tuesday.
PM says road cameras to start operating soon, vows strict traffic law enforcement
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday vowed stricter traffic law enforcement, saying digital cameras will soon catch violations such as running red lights as part of a “zero tolerance” approach to road safety.
Alleged Serbian gangland killer held in Athens
A man wanted in Serbia for alleged participation in a string of gangland morders has been arrested in southern Athens, authorities said Tuesday.
Questions raised by incomplete OPEKEPE file sent to EPPO
Questions have risen over indications that the police’s Internal Affairs Division sent only part of the material it had collected in its investigation into a growing scandal over alleged fraud related to European Union farm subsidies to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO).
Roads blocked as farmers in Thessaly stage new protest
Farmers protesting high production costs and delayed payments of subsidies briefly blocked a key highway in central Greece Tuesday, forcing motorists to make detours.
Supreme Court to oversee key strands of wiretapping scandal probe
Greece’s Supreme Court prosecutor is set to take over the most serious strands of an expanding illegal surveillance investigation, following a ruling by a single-judge misdemeanors court in Athens.
Files on two more ND MPs named in subsidy scandal sent to Parliament
New files from an investigation by European prosecutors into a major farm subsidy scandal were forwarded to Parliament Tuesday, with the question of stripping two sitting lawmakers with the governing New Democracy party of their immunity from prosecution.
Panel recommends lifting immunity of 11 ND lawmakers
The Parliament’s Ethics Committee unanimously recommended on Tuesday lifting the immunity of 11 ruling New Democracy lawmakers whose names appear in a case file submitted by the European prosecutor as part of its investigation into Greece’s sprawling farm subsidy scam.
A few good months turn the entire working year around
The strong seasonality of the Greek service sector and long-term weaknesses of the domestic labor market allow a few, mainly summer months to determine the final annual result regarding the hiring-layoff balance.
Athens’ ‘backyard’ prepares to undergo mass redevelopment
The unnatural emptiness of the Eleonas metro station, the one with the lowest daily passenger traffic in the entire network of Athens, is an image that may soon be a thing of the past.