An appeals court in Athens has sentenced the founder of a Greek child charity to nine years and six months in jail for his role in a case involving the abuse of minors under his care, converted into a financial penalty of 10 euros per day.
Work will be carried out to conserve and upgrade a historic 19th century cemetery known for its monumental marble sculptures on the island of Syros following a three-year preparatory study, officials said Thursday.
Greece’s authority against money-laundering has issued an additional report on a farmer’s union official from Crete, as part of an investigation into an EU farm subsidies scam on the southern island, stating that he concealed a total of €8 million from tax authorities.
Police in northern Greece have broken a ring that allegedly sold hundreds of tons of cheap sunflower seed oil packaged as top-quality, award-winning olive oil in the domestic and German market, netting more than €3 million.
A 26-year-old man who had been missing since he disappeared from the suburb of Glyfada, southern Athens, on February 14, was found dead in sea off the Corinth Canal, which separates mainland Greece from the Peloponnese.
A man has been arrested in southern Greece for allegedly belonging to a ring of scammers that used the increasingly widespread home wiring fault ploy to steal well over half a million euros from vulnerable people in just weeks, police said Thursday.
The Association of Greek Air Traffic Controllers revealed on Thursday that its staff had lost contact with a radar used to direct air traffic around Athens’ international airport.
The owner of the Violanta cookie factory, where five workers died in a massive gas explosion last month, has been jailed pending trial on charges including homicide with possible intent.
Parliament will start debating legislation on Thursday that would create a diaspora electoral constituency and allow Greeks living abroad to vote by mail in parliamentary elections.
Greek tourism has entered 2026 with even more positive prospects, but also with a pressing need for structural adjustments.