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Man arrested for blackmailing senior cleric

Man arrested for blackmailing senior cleric

A man posing as a tax official was arrested on Wednesday for demanding 8,200 euros from the Bishop Amvrosios of Kalavryta to settle a supposed debt his church owed in taxes, threatening that otherwise one of its properties would be auctioned off.

The 28-year-old was nabbed at a local post office, where he had gone to pick up a check promised to him by Amvrosios, who had earlier notified police.

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