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Ministry of Finance reveals latest donations figures

BELGRADE -- A Serbian government account set up to collect donations for the flood affected areas has, as of 18:00 CET on Thursday, received a total of RSD 967.64 million.

This amounts to about EUR 8.35 million.

A woman has been arrested in Thessaloniki on suspicion of stealing a cab driver’s wallet while in his taxi, police said on Tuesday.

The woman is alleged to have taken the wallet while the cabbie stepped out of the vehicle for a brief moment.

She then used his cash card to obtain 500 euros from an ATM.

The incident occurred on May 14.

BEOGRAD - Over EUR 150,000 has been collected in a single day via the PayPal account opened by the Serbian government through the Embassy in Belgium to help flood relief efforts, Zoran Torbica of the Internet Development Center told Tanjug.

Bulgarian police have detained 10 people in connection with credit card frauds, as part of a special operation.

The operation codenamed "Lyon" was conducted in Varna, Razgrad, and Silistra, where 29 suspected addresses were checked, Standartnews revealed.

Donations for flood victims via Serbian church in NYC

NEW YORK -- Over the weekend, USD 50,000 have been collected in New York through the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava for the flood victims in Serbia and Bosnia.

Ministry opens PayPal account for donations to flood victims

BELGRADE -- As of Monday, donations for the flood victims in Serbia can be made via PayPal from 193 countries and regions, the Serbian Ministry of Finance said.

Donations can be sent via floodrelief.gov.rs (Serbian; English).

BELGRADE - As of Monday, donations for the flood victims in Serbia can be made via PayPal from 193 countries and regions, the Serbian Ministry of Finance said.

Donations can be sent to floodrelief@gov.rs.

More than half of Bulgarians must set money aside in order to pay their taxes on time, according to a recent study.

Some 40% of respondents would use card payments at the National Revenue Agency if they had access to POS terminals, the survey of Noema agency cited by Bulgarian National Radio showed.

Greeks are among those least likely to use credit cards in the European Union, according to a European Central Bank report published on Tuesday.

Greece came third last both in terms of the frequency of use and the total value of payments made by credit card, according to the ECB.

SUBOTICA - Serbia's State Secretary for Trade and Telecommunications Stefan Lazarevic has said that PayPal could soon allow reception of payments from abroad in Serbia.