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Crime
Greek Surgeon, Anesthetist, Paramedic Ask for Bribe to Operate on Patient
A neurosurgeon, an anesthetist and a paramedic of the Evangelismos public hospital in Athens were arrested by Greek police on charges of asking for a bribe to operate on a patient.
The Internal Affairs Directorate of the Hellenic Police filed...
Greece
Greek Doctors Suspended for Bribery and Extortion Back to Work
Doctors who had been suspended for bribery or extorting money from patients are back in the National Health System under the new law according to which all public sector employees who were suspended by the previous government, will be...
Greece
Greek Inspector General Says Corrupt Doctors are Seldom Disciplined
Greek General Inspector of Public Administration Leandros Rakintzis said that the Central Disciplinary Council (CDC) of the national health system seldom punishes public doctors for offenses.
Speaking to Greek newspaper "Kathimerini," the public administration watchdog said, "I have found serious delays in...
Crime
Clinic Director Arrested for Bribery
The Director of the Gynaecological Clinic of "Agios Dimitrios" hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, was been arrested earlier this morning, as he demanded a payoff in order to proceed with one of his patient's surgery. The doctor, who asked for...
Crime
Bribery Price List for Greek Doctors
Doctor bribery still remains an incurable disease for the Greek National Health System. The issue came up once again after a new case was detected on Thursday, July 10, at Evangelismos hospital in Athens, where a doctor was arrested for...
Crime
Greek Gynecologist Goes to Jail for Bribery
A gynecologist working in Filiates hospital was sentenced to a two years in prison for accepting a 300 euro bribery, or “fakelaki” (envelope) as the Greeks call it, in order to perform an unnecessary surgery to a 83-year old...
Europe
BBC on Greek Fakelaki
The BBC posted an extensive article on Greek websites which host complaints about corruption in the public sector. The article attempts to translate the word fakelaki, referring to websites such as edosafakelaki.org.
According to the interpretation: “Treatment is supposed to...
Economy
Greek Debt Crisis Hits Bribery Culture
Greece's economic crisis has also cut back the traditional practise of paying bribes to win contracts and speed up transactions, the country's chief corruption watchdog said on Tuesday.
In an annual survey, the Greek branch of Berlin-based Transparency International said...