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Crime
Financial Scam against IKA State Fund
Greek Financial Police has completed an investigation regarding a scam against the State and social security fund IKA, resulting in damages to the tune of 12.8 million euros. Suspects are facing felony charges of fraud, forgery, violating tax legislation and embezzling funds from the...
Crime
Fugitive Fake Doctor Ran Skyros Hospital for 13 Years
A fake doctor who ran Skyros Hospital for 13 years has gone to ground. Ioannis Kastanis applied for the job to the Ministry of Health in 1999, submitting fake degrees from 'La Sapienza' University of Rome.
The fraud came to light on May...
Cyprus
Cyprus Hunts Missing Bitcoin Brit After Staff Speak Out
Former staff at Nicosia-based bitcoin company Neo & Bee apparently took to the internet Friday to speak out against their British ex-boss, Danny Brewster, who is wanted by Cyprus police on suspicion of fraud after leaving the island owing depositors.
Via social networking...
Crime
Greek Diplomats Linked to Anti-landmine Charity Fraud Scandal
After 20 months of investigation, Greek police revealed another scam against the Greek state. An international demining Non Governmental Organization (NGO) received about 9 million euros from the Greek State from 2000 to 2004, to finance alleged demining programs...
Australia
Greek-Australian Blows The Whistle on Former MP
Greek-Australian Health Services Union (HSU) national secretary Kathy Jackson (née Koukouvaos) took to the witness stand in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.on Thursday, in the fraud and theft trial of Craig Thomson.
During heated cross-examination by Thomson's lawyers, Jackson described the union...
Crime
Three Arrested, Twenty-Five Charged in Greek Bank Fraud
New facts have come to light in the alleged fraud case involving Hellenic Postbank and loans granted to businessmen between 2006-2011.
Since yesterday evening, Greek businessman Dimitris Kontominas was being treated for a respiratory infection at a private hospital under armed...
Australia
Sydney Lawyer Exploits Greek Clients
For more than three years, a Greek Sydney lawyer, James Dimitrious, was using his clients money for personal purposes. He had convinced his clients that their capital was safe in his personal account but it wasn't. It was proved...
Australia
Greek-Australian Accused of Stealing 500 Million Dollars
The 44 year-old Greek-Australian, Vasilis Vlachos, is involved in a case that has shocked the country. He is accused of stealing 500 million dollars. According to police estimates, his victims number well over a thousand, among them many policemen.
Vlachos...
Crime
Scam in the Seamen's Fund- 6 People Arrested
Six people who worked for the Seamen's Healthcare Fund, who tried to defraud about 1.1 million euros have been arrested.
Αs the newspaper "Kathimerini" reports, the men wanted to include the owner of a clinic who has been cooperating with...
Crime
Inheritance Fraudsters Arrested
Six members of a Greek family - among them a policeman, too – have been arrested for fraud, since they were pretending to be the relatives of dead people in order to obtain their money and properties.
Specifically, they illegally...