Deception

The Athens Council of Appeals has decided in favor of the extradition of a Chinese national to his home country to stand trial on financial fraud charges.

The 53-year-old has been in Greece since 2017 and was apprehended in early August on an arrest warrant issued by Interpol.

Conservative Serbs and Croats - normally at odds - came together in Moldova at the weekend to denounce gay rights, abortion and the decline of family values at the socially conservative World Family Congress in Chisinau.

A fake Twitter account attributed to newly appointed Culture Minister Myrsini Zorba on Thursday incorrectly announced the death of France-based Greek filmmaker Costa-Gavras.

The news was picked up by major news networks before it was proven to be a fake account set up by Italian journalist Tommaso Debenedetti.

Sofia. People are not familiar with the term "fake news" and there is not enough talk about it, Political analyst Parvan Simeonov, CEO of Gallup International, (not related to Gallup, Inc.), told Focus News Agency.

34 per cent of Bulgarians say they have seen fake news or news the content of which they believe is untrue in the last week of July. This is equivalent to 1 million and 800 thousand adult Bulgarians. This conclusion is made in an express drill of Gallup International, held between 30 July and 1 August.

A self-proclaimed billionaire, who claimed he had enough money to buy Greece's entire debt, was remanded on Thursday, following the unanimous decision of a prosecutor and an examining magistrate in Athens.

Artemis Sorras is charged with setting up, being a member of and running a criminal organization, fraud against the State and banks and money laundering.

Turcoin, which was presented as Turkey's "national" alternative digital currency, has been revealed as a Ponzi scheme after its founders disappeared with millions of dollars. 

For three years phone scammers have taken about BGN 20 million from their victims. This was stated by Nova TV spokesman of the Prosecutor General Rumyana Arnaudova. This amount does not include the value of the given jewelery and precious items.

Can you imagine spending a month without Facebook? The inhabitants of a small Asian country will have to do so.

It's about Papua New Guinea, where the authorities decided to prohibit the use of the social networking for 30 days. For this period, an impact assessment will be carried out on the site and measures to identify fake accounts will be developed.

A Danish man was jailed for a week in Malaysia April 30 after pleading guilty to breaking a law against "fake news," the first person to be punished under the controversial legislation.