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Two non-commissioned officers accused of leading $8m cryptocurrency fraud in Greece
Nine of the 17 suspects are military personnel and face felony charges including fraud and money laundering. Hearings before an investigating magistrate begin on Saturday, with €295,090 in cash and dozens of electronic devices seized
Fire investigators examine gas installation after deadly blast in Athens’ Plaka district
Structural checks on damaged neighbouring buildings begin on Monday, while relatives of the six victims, four of them American tourists, have arrived in Greece to give DNA samples so the bodies can be formally identified
Man arrested after holding his wife hostage in Nikaia home
The 44-year-old woman ended the standoff by opening the door to police officers, while a neighbour said she had been screaming for three days and that her 49-year-old husband may have been carrying a knife
Giorgos Mazonakis’s final minutes: The plasmapheresis machine repeatedly sounded alarms while Gaka pressed restart
The Hellenic Police investigation is now reconstructing in detail how the machine operated on the critical day — blood exchange began at 2:37 p.m., the first interruption came at 3:22 p.m., and alarms were recorded through 3:45 p.m.
Woman remanded over fatal Marfin Bank arson attack deemed ‘particularly dangerous’, court explains reasoning
A court has ruled that the 46-year-old woman held in custody over the deadly Marfin Bank arson attack poses a serious risk, rejecting defence claims that photographic evidence suggests a resemblance rather than positive identification
Man arrested in Germany over Greek Mafia gangland murders
The 31-year-old, a member of the Entik cigarette-smuggling network, also faces charges over bombings and arson attacks, the kidnapping of a prison officer, and illegal possession of a Kalashnikov assault rifle, as extradition proceedings begin
Wife of Athens suitcase murder suspect testifies: ‘I feared the body was Lisa’s’
Alaina Hall, the wife of Sharif Ahmadzai, the 28-year-old Afghan lightweight boxer accused of murdering British volunteer Elisabeth-Jane Ross, gave a revealing statement to authorities on the last day of July, sources reveal. In her testimony, the woman described how she met the suspect, the life the couple had built together in Greece, and their […]
Forensic examination to settle conflicting death timeline of elderly man whose son froze him to collect his pension
Police in Sparta have charged the son of the deceased with concealing his father's death in order to keep collecting his pension, as investigators now await forensic results to establish when and how the elderly man died
Human error likely cause of fatal firefighter helicopter collision that left two dead, as experts assess possible scenarios
Greek Police have opened a preliminary investigation into Sunday's fatal collision between two firefighting helicopters near Psatha, west of Athens, as pilots outline six possible scenarios, from crew fatigue to visibility loss and technical failure
Killer used murdered Scottish woman’s phone to make believe she was still alive, say Greek police
Interpol and US databases identified the victim as E.R., a Scot who reached Greece via Edinburgh, not Cyprus as first reported, as detectives examine flight records, accommodation bookings and phone data for her final movements
