Greece’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority has frozen the assets of Yiannis Panagopoulos, the longtime president of the country’s largest private-sector labor union, amid a sweeping probe into the alleged embezzlement of tens of millions of euros in state and European Union funds.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday, February 11, government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis confirmed on Thursday.
The intervention of Yiannis Retsos, chairman of the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE), at the presentation of the foundation’s quarterly report on January 27, was significant.
Military authorities in Greece have arrested a member of the Armed Forces on suspicion of leaking top-secret information that officials say could jeopardize national security.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Greece of “dismantling” decades’ worth of cooperation and engaging in “aggressive anti-Russian statements.”
A member of Greece’s Armed Forces who has been arrested on suspicion of leaking top-secret information to “third parties,” served in a “crucial” post and tried to recruit others in his espionage ring, Kathimerini understands.
Authorities in northern Greece have concluded an enforcement campaign targeting negligent pet owners across several municipalities, resulting in dozens of fines for legal violations.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request for the trial into the deadly 2023 Tempe rail disaster to be moved from its current venue in the central Greek city of Larissa.
Greek farmers voted to escalate their long-running demonstrations by descending on the capital with tractors and buses on February 13 or 14, following a national meeting in Thessaly, central Greece, on Wednesday.
The Greek police’s organized crime squad, in coordination with the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has dismantled a Romanian human trafficking ring that exploited vulnerable individuals by forcing them to beg on the streets of Athens.