Property law

Following strong disagreements with creditors over the level of protection from foreclosure of debtors' primary residence, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos outlined the elements of the bill finally tabled by the government in Parliament on 26 March.

He said the draft legislation will come to a vote within the week.

A bank employee from Nova Zagora was arrested for embezzlement of nearly 400 000 leva of the customers' money. The exact amount of stolen funds is still being clarified. The offense has been committed for a long time so that the deviant amounts are not detected.

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.

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Five former bank workers in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, accused of lifting some 2.7 million euros worth of cash, gold and jewelry from safes, were released from pretrial custody on Thursday.

The five retired bank workers denied charges of embezzlement, among others, in their depositions to an investigating magistrate, who ordered their release.

Some 100,000 private properties are expected to gradually pass into state ownership by the end of 2019, because they have not been declared to the national cadaster.

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.

The inspection mechanism of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue is looking out for properties that have not been declared to the tax authorities, and particularly assets belonging to state debtors.

Too many buildings in Athens and other cities around Greece have been allowed to fall into the hands of anti-establishment and other groups.

The owners of these buildings have to pay property taxes and watch other bills pile up even though they are unable to access them and have no control over what is happening to their assets.

A 35-year-old gas station employee from Ioannina, northwestern Greece, is believed to have led the far-right group Combat 18 Hellas, according to police who arrested 11 suspected members of the organization earlier this week.

Of the 11, seven are to face an investigating magistrate on Saturday on charges of running a criminal organization.