MIGRATION

Thessaloniki Airport policeman faces illegal migration charges
NEWS

A Thessaloniki Airport-based policeman who reportedly charged third-county nationals €1,000 to allow them fly out of Greece on fake passports has been arrested and charged with facilitating illegal migration and membership of a criminal organization.


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.





Transparency authority to probe fresh pushback allegations 
NEWS

Greece’s independent authority for transparency will investigate new reports that the authorities were involved in illegal pushbacks of refugees after the New York Times published a video allegedly showing the Coast Guard abandoning people at sea, many of which were children.


Absconding migrant trafficker arrested in Athens
NEWS

A 37-year-old woman who had absconded from a conviction of 18 years in prison for migrant trafficking was arrested in the western Athens suburb of Petroupoli on Monday, the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported on Tuesday.