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Dirty-money body refit Greece’s anti-laundering committee, and its controversial head, to be replaced The committee formed to combat money laundering is to be disbanded and replaced by another independent body that will be under the much tighter control of Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogouskoufis, according to a bill submitted to Parliament yesterday.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

PM rejects PASOK’s Siemens demands

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday wrote back to PASOK leader...

Multiple blazes gradually tamed

Firefighters were yesterday battling blazes on Crete and in Arta and Ioannina...

Jail for felons of the cloth?

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece yesterday asked the government...

‘Needlessly wasting money’...

Employees at the Perivolaki psychiatric care...

Job seekers swindled out of 132,000 euros

Three suspected fraudsters swindled 132,000 euros from unemployed residents...

IN BRIEF

Youths firebomb station; cars wrecked but no one hurt : A group of around 10 hooded youths on motorcycles staged...

Bill submitted in Parliament : Draft legislation that aims to subject private colleges in Greece to stricter regulation...

Migrants found : More than 100 illegal immigrants from Asia were being detained in the northern city of Komotini...

Explosive haul : Police in Halkidiki were yesterday questioning a 55-year-old man after finding more than 60 kilos of dynamite...

Dead farmer : Rescue workers yesterday recovered the body of a 76-year-old farmer...


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Pedagogical Institute... Education Minister Evripidis Stylianidis (r) watches members...

EDITORIAL

The buck hopefully stops here The Economy and Finance Ministry will now have full and direct control over the services combating financial crimes and tax evasion. There is to be a change of leadership at the independent authority on money laundering; the department is to be downgraded and will be supervised by the relevant government minister. Some time ago one of the minister's personal aides was appointed as the new head of the Special Investigations Service. Meanwhile, the authorities are focusing on serious financial crimes.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

It’s a jungle out there Hopefully, teams of social anthropologists are out in our streets, night and day, taking meticulous notes on the behavior of Athenian taxi drivers, working on studies that will shed light on one of the most bizarre groups in modern society and offer suggestions on how to remedy the situation. Because the eclectic horde that drives our yellow fleet is as unique and as fascinating as any undiscovered Amazonian tribe. But unlike primitive tribes that are suddenly thrust into the 21st century, Greek cabbies are a modern tribe that lives by the rules of pre-agricultural society.

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