Fraud

A 29-year-old bank employee in the town of Dulovo has been detained for embezzling large amounts of money, said the Silistra Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior.

Police in Thessaloniki said on Thursday that they traced two suspected members of a ring believed to have tampered with nine ATMs which allowed them to steal people's card details, clone their cards and make multiple withdrawals from their accounts over the past two years.

The suspects, aged 33 and 41, are both foreign nationals, police said, without revealing further details.

The Fraud Squad, the National Police and Sofia Police Department have broken up a phone fraud that has been going on for almost a month, said the press office of the Ministry of the Interior.

Twenty people who have filed criminal complaints against two medical professors who they say committed a 3 million-euro fraud have been waiting for a year for the trial to start.

A resident of Svilengrad at the age of 71 has been a victim of phone scammers, the District Police Directorate of Haskovo has announced. The woman went to the police station and said she had been deceived under the scheme "money for a close relative".

The European Union's Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has issued a fine of more than 200 million euros to Greece for failing to stop a wide-scale tax fraud by Chinese criminal gangs importing ultra-cheap goods through the country's largest port of Piraeus, news portal Politico reported on Monday.

An 11-year-old child from the South Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora became a victim of telephone fraudsters. It gave the criminals more than BGN 53,000 and gold jewelery. The child was deceived to give the money through one of the classic schemes - the fraudsters asked for assistance to the police.

Calculations suggest that the projected costs of fraud for Turkey is approximately $40 billion, according to Fikret Sebilcioğlu, an executive board member of Ethics and Reputation Society (TEİD).

Greek police (ELAS) took part in the fourth European Money Mule Action (EMMA 4), a large-scale police operation from September 1 to November 30, which saw the participation of law enforcement officials from some 26 countries, including non-European countries, Australia and the US.

Greek cyber crime police have charged a foreign-based individual with internet fraud and breaching personal data protection laws.