EYP
Crime
EYP Questioned About Phone Taps
No one outside the Parliament's Ethics Committee will ever know what he said, but the head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), Theodoros Dravillas, is scheduled to testify before them on Oct. 31 and answer questions about the agency’s...
Greece
Pangalos Spy Claims Gall Greek Government
Continuing his reputation as a loose cannon even in retirement, former Greek Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos' claims that Greece listened in on private talks of U.S. Ambassadors in Athens and Ankara have drawn a swift rebuke from the...
Greece
Greek Golden Dawn Leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos and MPs Arrested [update]
Greek police have arrested Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party that is under fire in the killing of an anti-fascist for which one of its members was charged, was arrested on the morning of Sept....
Crime
Greek Golden Dawn Leader Arrested in Sweep
Greek police have arrested Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party that is under fire in the killing of an anti-fascist for which one of its members was charged, was arrested on the morning of Sept....
Greece
Greek Secret Service Removes Golden Dawn Investigating Officer
On Sept. 27 it became known that the head of the Third Division Counterintelligence, who had the overall responsibility of the investigations for Golden Dawn acts, was suddenly removed from the National Intelligence Service (EYP).
His removal from the Service...
Crime
New Information on Trikala Escapees Manhunt
On July 2, the police cornered two of the five criminals that escaped from the Trikala Prison last month, and killed them in a shootout in the region of Koniska, Aitoloakarnania.
However, there is new information that can possibly reverse...
Crime
Venizelos Says Rivals Worked Against Him
PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, testifying during a fiery hearing before a Parliamentary committee about his tenure as finance minister and his handling of a list of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that wasn't...
Greece
Karamanlis Death Plot, Phone Tap Linked
A magistrate has ordered the investigations into the alleged assassination threat against former prime minister Kostas Karamanlis and the wire-tapping scandal against his government be combined into a single probe, the news site ENet reported.
Dimitris Foukas said there were...
Crime
Papaconstantinou Says He Didn't Check Lagarde List
Former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou, set to be questioned over his role in the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in a Swiss bank that hadn’t been checked for tax evaders, said he never...
events
Corfu Hosts European Youth Parliament's International Forum
The Ionian island of Corfu will host the European Youth Parliament's Ionian International Forum 2012 for the first time. According to the Parliament's official website, on August 21-29, more than 150 young Europeans from 24 different countries will visit Corfu...