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A doctor accused of being part of a ring of hospital employees allegedly stealing life-saving cancer medicines for sale abroad, was arrested on Wednesday. The doctor at Laiko Hospital in Athens was detained by Greek police's financial crimes squad and...

A 46-year-old man was arrested in the area of Alimos, an Athens suburb, on Tuesday for illegal possession and transportation of antiquities of very high value, police’s cultural heritage division said. The prosecutor charged him with violating laws for protection...

A 65-year old priest was arrested in Patras accused of shooting and killing two dogs. According to police, the suspect shot and fatally injured two dogs that had entered into his garden with a hunting rifle. Afterwards the priest took the...

An 81-year-old businessman has been arrested after police found undeclared artifacts and weapons in his home, police have reported. The businessman's home is located in Mandra in western Attica where police confiscated a total of 23 Byzantine icons, 108 ancient...

Authorities announced that they arrested a 39-year-old man in Attica for possessing and online distribution of child porn. The suspect's home was searched as a part of an investigation based on evidence collected by Europol and the US-based National Center...

A 31 year-old Greek national from the island of Rhodes was arrested in Turkey for transporting 50kg of heroin from the neighboring country to Greece. The young man claims that he had no knowledge of what he was transporting...

Greek police have arrested one person who was allegedly involved in Thursday's physical attack on New Democracy MP Giorgos Koumoutsakos. Koumoutsakos had been attacked by a group of protesters, during the Pontic anti-government protest that took place on Thursday in front of...

A man who has spent years deceiving elderly Greeks – among them the mother of Health Minister Makis Voridis – has just been arrested in the Menidi of Attica following a chase with police officers. The minister of health's mother...

A jihadist arrested in Belgium on charges of participating in jihadist operations in Syria and Iraq had a legal residency permit in Greece, authorities say. On Wednesday, a 24-year old jihadist travelled from Athens International Airport to Charleroi, Belgium. He passed undetected by...

Editor of Greek daily newspaper Friday 13th, Emilios Liatsos, was arrested earlier on Friday after the wife of the leader of the Independent Greeks party, Elena Tzouli, had pressed charges against him and his paper for violating a court’s...