Embezzlement

A Hellenic Post employee in Halkidiki, northern Greece has been charged with forgery and embezzling 300,000 euros from two branches in the 2012-14 period.

The suspect embezzled funds, pensions and remittances while he was working at the post office branches in Kallikrateia and Kassandreia.

He was expected to appear before an investigative magistrate on July 4.

The detained leader of a fringe ultranationalist movement called Convention of Greeks, Artemis Sorras, will appear before an examining magistrate on Thursday to respond to a series of felony charges, including setting up, being a member of and running a criminal organization, fraud against the State and banks.

A Bulgarian court sentenced on Jan. 23 a former head of the intelligence agency to 15 years in jail and ordered the confiscation of half his assets after finding him guilty of embezzlement.

A post office employee on Lesvos has been charged with embezzlement after a police investigation found that he had stolen at least 40,000 euros over the past four years.

Officers found that he had taken various amounts of money out of donation parcels bound for a monastery on the island.

The suspect is due to face a prosecutor.

The Greek corruption prosecutor has officially brought criminal charges against 12 employees of the Urban Rail Transport (STASY) of stealing takings from the transport company worth 1 million euros in 2015.

The corruption prosecutor for Thessaloniki, Achilleas Zisis, on Thursday brought criminal charges of fraud, embezzlement and forgery against a bank branch in the northern port city and a senior employee of the branch who is alleged to have extracted 850,000 euros from 10 bank customers between 2013 and 2015.

A 53-year-old police officer on Wednesday faced a Thessaloniki prosecutor on a string of charges including forgery, embezzlement, the theft of electricity and water, violating gun laws and breaking customs regulations.

A prosecutor on Friday called on a court hearing the case against 19 Energa and Hellas Power executives accused of embezzling more than 100 million euros from the Greek state to find 12 of the defendants guilty of a string of charges ranging from embezzlement to money laundering.

Judges and prosecutors are to return to work in the coming days with a mountain of cases, many that have dragged on for months - if not years - to push through the slow Greek court system.

After elections to appoint new judges and prosecutors this coming Saturday, courts are expected to get back to work in earnest.

Spain's Princess Cristina and her husband went on trial Jan. 11 under intense global media scrutiny in a landmark corruption case that has outraged the country and sullied the monarchy's reputation.