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Doctors released as scrutiny grows over Stem Cell clinic after Mazonakis’s death
Health minister says clinic held only a general practice licence, unfit for plasmapheresis, as Athens Medical Association launches an emergency inspection following Giorgos Mazonakis's fatal cardiac arrest at the Kolonaki clinic
Adonis Georgiadis questions clinic where Mazonakis suffered cardiac arrest: “It was not licensed for plasmapheresis”
The Health Minister says the facility was licensed only as a general medical practice, where a procedure such as plasmapheresis could not legally be performed. He has asked the Athens Medical Association to investigate
€40 Million “mammoth” fraud involving illegal tax refunds: 46 individuals and 152 companies under investigation
The network allegedly operated through fictitious transactions, shell companies and “front men” — Greece’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority has put accountants and tax advisers under scrutiny
Thessaloniki buses collide and bus slams into stop, four injured
EKAV, the Fire Service and Traffic Police rushed to the area, and the circumstances surrounding the collision are being investigated
Greek primary schools lose 30,000 first-year pupils in a decade as population ages
Education Minister Sofia Zacharaki says over 53,000 teachers have joined Greek schools since 2019, as the ministry deploys an AI planning tool and funds building renovations to offset a demographic slide accelerating nationwide school closures
Thessaloniki man jailed for assaulting partner and abusing her for months
The Thessaloniki court handed down a one-year term, ordering two months served over a previous domestic violence conviction, while prosecutors investigate the defendant's three children's living conditions and the sadomasochistic assaults she described at trial
Torn passport of missing Chinese woman found in Galatsi Grove after four months
Passport found cut into strips in Galatsi Grove, showing signs of prolonged weather exposure, as Interpol joins Greek and Chinese authorities probing Yu Ting's disappearance, with new witness testimony from Thessaloniki also under review
Four police officers to stand trial over Kyriaki Griva’s murder in Athens
A referral order from the Athens Judicial Council charges the duty officer, supervisor, guard and call handler with fatally exposing Griva through omission, and keeps in place the restrictive conditions imposed since their pre-trial statements
