fraud

France's most wanted fraudster, Alli Shoobhi Kassem, was arrested by Greek authorities in Voula, an up-market suburb on the Athens coast. The French authorities had issued a European warrant for his arrest for illegal activities that include money laundering. The...

An Athens prosecutor on Wednesday charged 23 people for multi-million euro investment fraud and money laundering in Greece and abroad. The criminal racket included 12 Greek nationals, three of whom are lawyers, two Turkish nationals, a Russian and an Indian....

A seven-month-old Syrian baby temporarily staying with his/her family in a refugee registration camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece died today of natural causes. Health officials are trying to determine the exact cause of the baby's death. Lesvos,  is...

Greek-Australian travel agent Alexandra Kamitsis was sentenced to three years and 11 months in prison this week for fraud, after she admitted to spending money she obtained for pensioner travel concessions on her family and friends. Furthermore, the former...

Greek-Australian Tom Poursanidis was sentenced to seven years in prison after he duped an elderly man from Melbourne out of 4.92 million dollars, over the course of eight years, reported the Greek Diaspora newspaper Neos Kosmos. The 52-year-old Greek-Australian builder,...

Corruption and fraud issues have not yet ceased to trouble the Greek society, despite the fact that their numbers appear to have decreased compared to 2013. According to an Ernst & Young global survey, the pressure for increased revenue and international...

Deputy prosecutor Dimitris Mitroulias requested the referral of six people to the three-member Felony Court of Thessaloniki regarding a scam that was set up at a Greek Orthodox convent near the city. The deputy prosecutor proposed that two monks, a nun...

Greek Police arrested a 48-year-old wanted convict yesterday, who had got three life sentences for a series of financial crimes against the State and had been hiding for at least eight years in Mount Athos' monastery cells, as a trainee...

The Athens Court of First Instance has brought three felony charges against four Greek companies in a scandal involving over 25 billion euros in EU subsidies for research and pilot programs in Greece. The case involves subsidies of two European Union...

According to a recent "Der Spiegel" article, German auto companies Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Opel are being investigated by Greek tax authorities as the latest suspects of fraud. The extremely low clearing prices at which German companies deliver their vehicles to distributors...