Piraeus

Shril allegations of “rat” and “snitch” were the scathing barbs aimed by members of a jailed urban terror gang on Tuesday against one-time fugitive and “old guard” terrorist Christodoulos Xiros.

Counterterrorism officers were seeking to broaden their investigation into suspected links between Greek domestic terrorist organizations following the arrest Monday of Angeliki Spyropoulou, an alleged accomplice of November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros, and two people with suspected links to convicted members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire guerrilla group.

BELGRADE - Serbia will modernise the section to the Hungarian border on the Belgrade-Budapest railway regardless of the intention of the Greek government to renounce the privatisation of the port of Piraeus, Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic said on Friday.

SREMSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic expressed the belief on Friday that the announcement issued by the Greek government concerning the renouncement of privatisation for the port of Piraeus will not impact the realisation of the project of modernisation of the Belgrade-Budapest railway.

"Railway to go ahead as planned" despite Piraeus decision

BELGRADE -- Serbia continues to work on the modernization of the Belgrade-Budapest railway and will start building it without delays by the end of this year.

As a judicial probe into a massive extortion ring directed from inside Korydallos Prison deepened, an investigating magistrate on Tuesday granted two suspected members conditional release while remanding another two.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party responded on Tuesday to statements made by a candidate for the main opposition SYRIZA party, suggesting a renegotiation of several privatization projects and in particular of the cargo terminal at the country's main port in Piraeus.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

A total of 2.987 million containers were handled last year by Piraeus Container Terminal, Chinese company Cosco?s local subsidiary, at the second and third container terminals of Greece?s largest port, according to figures released yesterday at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where Cosco Pacific is listed.

Details from a huge case file on a massive extortion ring directed from inside Korydallos Prison indicate that the racket members had absolute freedom of movement inside the high-security jail as well as access to heavy weaponry and significant financial support, Kathimerini understands.

The jailed head of a crime syndicate, Panayiotis Vlastos, has allegedly told a relative that he knows who murdered two Golden Dawn members in late 2013.