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Simitis Won't Appear In Tsochatzopoulos Case

The Athens Appeals Court hearing the trial of former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos for money laundering has rejected his request for the former members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), including ex-Prime Minister Costas Simitis,...

Ex-SDOE Chief Copied Lagarde List

A former head of the Greek Financial Crimes Squad SDOE- refuting his own earlier testimony - has told a parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that...

Four Cleared in Zachopoulos Sex Video

Six years after a so-called Sex, Lies and Videotape scandal rocked the government of then Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, four people have been acquitted of charges they violated the privacy of former Culture Ministry general secretary Christos Zachopoulos. An appeals...

Greece Cracks Unlawful Drug Export Ring

The Greek Police (EL.AS) Organized Crime Squad along with the financial crimes squad (SDOE) have conducted a joint operation to raid pharmacies and drug wholesalers they said have unlawfully engaged in drugs trafficking. The operations targeted Athens and other cities...

Greek Company Probed For Gold Smuggling

A Greek exporting company currently under investigation for issuing bogus checks came onto the radar of customs officials at Athens International Airport earlier this month after an employee was caught traveling with large quantities of unregistered gold and silver...

German Gold Smuggler Nabbed In Greece

With unregulated gold businesses growing fast in Greece during a crushing economic crisis as people pawn their goods, a police crackdown has netted a  German man who was been charged with trying to smuggle hundreds of pounds of gold...

SDOE Pushed On Lagarde List Report

Tired of foot-dragging by Greece's Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in delivering a report on a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts, members of a Parliament committee investigating it said they want it produced. The panel is trying to...

German Gold Smuggler Arrested

A German national, 31, who was arrested on April 11, at the Athens International Airport  in his effort to smuggle nearly 7kg of small gold bars and 425kg of small silver tablets out of Greece, was to face a...

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...

Papandreou May Be Called On Lagarde List

Greece's former Head of National Intelligence Service (EYP,) Costantinos Bikas, has been called to testify before a parliamentary committee investigating the removal of the names of three relatives of former finance minister George Papaconstantinou from a list of 2,602...