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Local official arrested for bribery

Police in Agrinio, central Greece, have arrested a 58-year-old local official on suspicion of bribery.

The unnamed suspect, an employee at the Regional Authority of Western Greece, was arrested while accepting 1,200 euros from a 31-year-old man in order to help him obtain a license to operate machinery used in public works.

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