Self-proclaimed 'trillionaire' finally in authorities' sights

It seems hard to believe that a man has been allowed to spend the last seven years claiming to have so much money that he would be at least 100 times richer than the richest man in the world and promising to pay off Greece's public debt and the debts of every citizen without scrutiny. The case of self-proclaimed trillionaire Artemis Sorras exposes not just Greeks' gullibility and their attraction to wild conspiracy theories - particularly those accentuated with his brand of nationalism, inspired by ancient Greece, and rabid anti-Semitism - but also the frightening ineffectiveness of the state apparatus.

Following his acquittal in 2013 on charges of disseminating false information after a complaint by Adonis Georgiadis - former MP for nationalist LAOS and New Democracy minister and now a vice president of ND - Sorras created an organization he called Convention of Greeks....