EPIRUS

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EPRS

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EPIRUS BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC

Eleven arrested for smuggling, dealing illegal steroids

A police operation on Monday led to the arrest of 11 Greeks - 10 men and a woman - believed to be members of an international criminal racket dealing in anabolic steroids in Greece and other countries.

Working together, officers of the Greek Police (ELAS) and the Financial Police conducted simultaneous raids in Attica, Crete and Epirus.

BIKH's fate appears all but sealed

Cold cuts producer BIKH is staring at the prospect that any assets it has been left with might be confiscated, while its 191 employees are joining the unemployment queues. On Wednesday BIKH's owners withdrew their application for bankruptcy, tabled in May, with which they had secured temporary protection from creditors until Friday, when the case is due to be heard.

Police seize 246 kg of cannabis in Epirus

Authorities in Epirus, northwestern Greece, seized 246 kilograms of cannabis in two police operations on Friday and Saturday.

Police arrested a 52-year-old woman on Saturday after finding 102 kg of the drug in her car in the region of Komboti in Arta.

On Friday, police confiscated 144 kg of cannabis found in an abandoned car in the region of Nea Selefkia in Thesprotia.

Anarchist group hits second time in a day, targeting professor's office

In the second initiative in one day, members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas barged into the Athens office of Dimitris Kaliambakos, a professor at the National Technical University of Athens. 

In a statement posted on an anarchist website, the group expressed its opposition to oil exploration in Epirus, a subject on which Kaliambakos has spoken on extensively in public.

Rain forecast until midweek

The National Meteorological Service (EMY) on Friday issued a warning that the weather will take a turn for the worse in many parts of Greece over the weekend, with rain, storms and strong winds forecast for much of the country.

On Saturday, the unsettled weather is expected to affect the western mainland, Thessaly, Macedonia and Epirus, moving to the Aegean over the weekend.

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