CORRUPTION


MEP Kaili files claim in EU Parliament that she was surveiled while on PEGA committee
NEWS

European Parliament Deputy Eva Kaili has appealed to the European Parliament for violation of her parliamentary immunity, in a claim she was surveilled by intelligence services during her tenure on the PEGA committee (Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware), her lawyers Sven Mary and Michalis Dimitrakopoulos said on Monday.

Kaili not taking part in EP session for ‘personal reasons’
NEWS

Eva Kaili, the MEP charged over her involvement in the Qatargate scandal, will not attend the plenary session of European Parliament in Strasbourg this week, for “personal, objective reasons which cannot be made public,” her lawyers said in a statement on Monday. 

How NGO managers siphon off funds
NEWS

The Anti-Money Laundering Authority has compiled and published a report on the methods used by the managers of nongovernmental organizations to divert money from the funds of their organizations. 


Border guards found to be on the take
NEWS

Five officers from the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department in northeastern Greece were arrested on Monday after a five-month investigation and charged with smuggling migrants from Turkey, authorities announced on Tuesday.


Two suspects in Qatargate case released from house arrest
NEWS

Belgian authorities have released two suspects in the Qatargate corruption scandal from house arrest on conditions. Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella and Francesco Giorgi, the Italian parliamentary assistant of Greek MEP Eva Kaili, had been under house arrest in the case of alleged bribes from Qatar, Morocco and Mauritania to influence European Parliament decision making.

Shades of corruption
OPINION

The latest information about Greece in the Eurobarometer survey on corruption is nothing new, but the trend is upward.

Cypriot ex-president denies interfering in soccer probe
NEWS

Former president Nicos Anastasiades, who has denied accusations that he unlawfully interfered in a soccer match-fixing probe, engaged in a back-and-forth with his accuser after he dropped the bombshell firsthand account allegations during a public podcast.



Police officers probed over shady Mykonos connections
NEWS

Amid the outcry over widespread illegal construction on the island of Mykonos and the state finally deciding to intervene and order demolitions recently, the role of some policemen with close connections to the builders engaged in illegal activity has drawn the spotlight.

Kaili fingerprints not found on money, lawyer says
NEWS

The lawyer of Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption who is to be released from custody and placed under house arrest, said that her fingerprints were never found on the bundles of money found in her residence by an investigator in the so-called Qatargate scandal.


Swift illegality, slow justice
OPINION

The swiftness of lawlessness and the slow movement of the state apparatus and justice can be quite astonishing. A prime example is the construction of large, unauthorized buildings that are provocative in nature.