YIANNIS SOULIOTIS

Wiretapping case: The phone data that triggered developments

When inspectors from the country’s telecommunications watchdog investigated claims by PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis that an attempt had been made to spy on his phone, they discovered that the intelligence service had lifted the secrecy on his calls.

‘Mr Bitcoin’ extradited by Greece to the US

Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik was put on an airplane to the United States on Thursday after being extradited by Greece, where he was arrested while on holiday with his family in 2017.

01.08.2022 / 19:14

Spyware case is potentially explosive

The attempted installation of spyware on the phones of a political party leader and a journalist has prompted parliamentary investigations and could have political repercussions.

26.07.2022 / 16:03

Bomb at court complex linked to anarchist groups

Investigators are linking the discovery of an explosive device at the Evelpidon Street court complex in downtown Athens at around 2 a.m. on Monday morning with a bombing attack at the tax office in Maroussi, northern Athens, in early July.

22.07.2022 / 18:19

Response to Attica fire deemed rapid

The response to the wildfire that broke out in Penteli north of Athens was almost immediate, Kathimerini has learned. The blaze started at 5.19 p.m. on Tuesday at the Vayati location and within 25 minutes the Fire Service has mobilized 15 water-dumping aircraft.

19.07.2022 / 12:38

Iran tanker saga goes to Supreme Court

The controversy surrounding the Iranian-flagged Lana tanker, seized in April by Greece for carrying Iranian oil, will continue on Tuesday at Greece’s Supreme Court.

07.07.2022 / 13:58

Attack on Athens tax office raises alarm

Investigators looking into a pre-dawn attack on a tax office in the northern Athens suburb of Maroussi are not ruling out domestic terrorism as a motive.

07.07.2022 / 12:57

Dawn attack against police seen as retaliation for jailed self-styled anarchist

On Wednesday a group of self-styled anarchists launched a dawn raid on riot police in the Exarchia district of Athens and detonated an incendiary device at the entrance to the apartment building where New Democracy MP Babis Papadimitriou lives.

01.07.2022 / 13:30

New trafficking corridor between Cesme and Ikaria

People traffickers are attempting to open a new migrant corridor between Cesme on the Turkish coast and the island of Ikaria, according to Greek authorities.

29.06.2022 / 12:31

Euro firefighters head to Greece for the summer

The first of a total of 250 European forest firefighters arrived on Monday to assist the work of the Greek authorities during the current firefighting season.

28.06.2022 / 08:57

Illegal migrant crossing attempts on the rise

Hundreds of migrants attempted to reach the islands of the eastern Aegean en masse with inflatable boats from Friday until early Monday morning, according to data released by the Hellenic Coast Guard headquarters.

24.06.2022 / 19:18

Hotel vandalized in Exarchia

A recently renovated hotel in central Athens was vandalized on Thursday night by at least two unknown individuals, who smashed windows and threw leaflets that called on tourists to leave what they declared to be a “class-war zone.”

23.06.2022 / 10:21

UK suspects’ drugs logo points to bigger racket

An undercover police officer working in a joint Greek-American drug operation has submitted evidence indicating that four British nationals arrested in Thessaloniki for attempting to bring 654 kilograms of cocaine into Greece from Italy may have connections to a much bigger racket.

18.06.2022 / 10:13

‘Gang enforcer’ murdered in ‘mafia-style’ execution

Police have launched an investigation after a man, reported to be a gas station owner, was gunned down in his business on Saturday. The incident happened at around 8 a.m. in the north-eastern Athens suburb of Gerakas.

17.06.2022 / 10:01

Ministry plans more campus police recruits

An extra 600 special guards are being recruited by the Citizens’ Protection Ministry to be integrated in the campus police force known as the University Institutions Protection Teams (OPPI), when they finally assume duties.