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Less than 24 hours after a court order was issued for the ejection of George Koutsolioutsos from the board of troubled jewelry-maker Folli Follie, a financial prosecutor on Tuesday filed criminal charges against Koutsolioutsos and his family who founded the company.

The former chief executive officer of Greek jewellery maker Folli Follie has resigned from the company's board, Folli said on Tuesday.
George Koutsolioutsos, the son of Folli's founders Dimitris and Ekaterini, stepped down from the CEO post in December last year after a hedge fund report questioned the company's accounting.

The president of one of Greece's biggest pharmaceutical companies and an influential personality in the Greek sports world, Thanasis Giannakopoulos has died. He was 88.

The last of three brothers, Giannakopoulos died on Tuesday in the intensive care unit of the Greek capital's Hygeia Hospital after suffering a stroke.

Bidding for the release of the two Greek soldiers who have been held without charge in Turkey since March, the government will push for a legislative amendment in Parliament in the coming days that will assign them to a post in the neighboring country.

The rate of Greek banks' nonperforming loans (NPLs) is in decline, but even if the reduction target set for the end of 2019 is reached, the rate will be particularly high, the Bank of Greece (BoG) warned in a report on Thursday.

It's late winter 2016, at a makeshift cemetery for Muslim migrants on Lesvos, less than 10 nautical miles off the Turkish coast. An imam in a white hazmat suit reads a prayer as a 3-year-old girl who died of meningitis shortly after landing on the eastern Aegean island is laid to rest. A red excavator is on standby to cover her grave after the end of the short ritual.

The government on Monday sought to appear upbeat about the agreement it reached with the country's creditors over the weekend, and which was approved by eurozone finance ministers earlier in the day, but the atmosphere within leftist SYRIZA is tense as dozens of reforms must be legislated in the coming weeks, some of them contentious.

The European Investment Fund (EIF) signed a deal on Monday to provide Greece's Eurobank with 230 million euros of loan guarantees to support small and medium-sized businesses and help the economy.

Senior Macedonian politicians have dismissed new court testimony that alleges they took huge bribes in relation to Deutsche Telecom.

Greece's former king Constantine Glicksberg spent Easter at the Holy Church of St. Nicholas on the isle of Spetses. He was with his wife Anna Maria and his son Nicholas and his wife Tatiana Blatnik.