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00:00:00Maritina's family is the first of those who were deceived to
00:00:03decide to make a statement in support of the accusation. Until
00:00:07then, she stands by her child until the very last
00:00:11second. The 37-year-old founder and president of the
00:00:14NGO pleaded guilty this morning, confessing to embezzlement,
00:00:18attributing his act to his addiction to gambling. I am
00:00:21repentant and shattered, I sincerely apologize to everyone
00:00:25and not as a pretext. All this I did because of my addiction
00:00:29to betting. With the consent of the investigator and prosecutor,
00:00:32he was temporarily detained. The money
00:00:35given for alleged civil life is minimal. I had a
00:00:39megalomania. I wanted to appear socially superior and I was completely
00:00:43addicted to betting. The Anti-Money Laundering Authority is now also scrutinizing
00:00:46bank accounts abroad.
00:00:50According to information, accounts of organization officials have been identified in
00:00:53banks in Lithuania and
00:00:56Denmark. Released on restrictive terms.
00:01:00Six of the total 10 arrested for the corruption ring in
00:01:03Katerini urban planning, the ring with the bribes and the kickbacks
00:01:07from the dialogues, from how blatantly they communicated to
00:01:11close their deals. These are the 30 folders with the
00:01:14money amounts found during the operations for the arrest of the members of the
00:01:18corruption ring in Katerini Urban Planning. Among
00:01:22the findings of the authorities are also can have in Greece.
00:01:25clients of the organization sent amounts for illegal
00:01:29services. In order not to leave traces, as recipients, they declared relatives of the
00:01:32accused employees of the building department. By order of the
00:01:36authority for money laundering, the bank accounts and the
00:01:39property of the 11 involved in the case were seized, while at the same time, an
00:01:43investigation of their bank movements over a
00:01:46five-year period was requested. The six of the total 11 arrested were led
00:01:50this morning before the Investigator, among them the two daughters of the alleged
00:01:53leading members of the organization and the six were released after
00:01:57their testimonies with restrictive terms. Who
00:02:01is a free professional, from the very first
00:02:03moment denies the attributed accusations, it is
00:02:07a very large case file and there are certainly many
00:02:10things that need to be thoroughly examined. The
00:02:14organization's activities are depicted in revealing conversations recorded
00:02:17by the internal affairs department's bug. In one
00:02:21of these, the director of the Urban Planning Department asks for money for illegal
00:02:24regularization of an arbitrary construction. You can make your magical
00:02:28phone calls for one category. Five, uh, uh, so I can see what
00:02:31there is, what's circulating, it's done, it's done, there is a
00:02:35but it's five dollars. In another conversation,
00:02:40an accused employee of the urban planning department asks for money from
00:02:43a private citizen to speed up procedures. I have to issue this
00:02:46certificate of building conditions by June 30th,
00:02:49and I got a little stressed about it, so I wanted to save the day, that's why I called
00:02:53you now. Yes, yes, I'll meet you in 2 minutes,
00:02:57in 2 minutes outside the city hall to give you the money so you can
00:03:00proceed. Tomorrow, the remaining five
00:03:04defendants are expected to testify, among whom is the director of the building
00:03:07department, the head of the construction department, and two employees of the
00:03:10urban planning department.
00:03:13The unraveling of the criminal activity of the extortion ring, led by a
00:03:17notorious Albanian criminal, is being carried out by the authorities. The leader of the
00:03:20ring was giving orders from prison for attacks on
00:03:23cafes and was calling for the death of innocents, because the organization's actions
00:03:27are indicative of the visual evidence of the ruthless beatings.
00:03:30A web of
00:03:34communications between prisoners and accomplices outside prisons, with the
00:03:37Albanian-born hardened prisoner allegedly giving the
00:03:41orders, has been successfully traced by the police officers of the
00:03:44Greek FBI's Extortion Department. The main recipients of his orders were two
00:03:47prisoners in Malandrinos prison,
00:03:50an Egyptian with the nickname Asfour and another one known as Chocolatas or
00:03:54Choco. The case file also includes another 19-year-old
00:03:58prisoner, while a 19-year-old known as Bigeo or
00:04:0107, a 17-year-old who is characterized as a main
00:04:04operational executive,
00:04:08a 19-year-old with the nickname One, an
00:04:1118-year-old and a 20-year-old. On August 26,
00:04:14a cafe in Agios Nikolaos Square becomes the target of an attack with two Molotov cocktails. In the
00:04:18early hours of September 8, 2026, two
00:04:21grenade attacks follow. At 4:22 in the morning,
00:04:25a cafe in Acharnon becomes a target.
00:04:28The owner of the heavily indebted property is reported to have demanded
00:04:30€300,000. Half an hour later, a second grenade explosion
00:04:34occurs at another cafe in America Square, owned by a
00:04:3746-year-old Syrian. From him, the ruthless criminal had
00:04:41demanded €100,000, threatening him and his five children.
00:04:45I have your boys and your three girls.
00:04:48Let me not start with the others. In mid-September, the
00:04:52notorious criminal, in a conversation he had with Asfour, tells him to prepare
00:04:56a second attack on the cafe in Acharnon.
00:05:00A little again, one or two grenades.
00:05:03On October 5th, the cafe in Acharnon is again
00:05:07targeted by a grenade,
00:05:10which was thrown from the opposite side at the moment two motorcycles were passing by
00:05:14and landed on the pavement in front of the store without
00:05:17exploding due to a malfunction in the firing mechanism. Inside
00:05:21were at least eight people, including the unseen
00:05:25owner. The phone communications recorded by the Police's bug
00:05:28reveal that he himself wanted victims. This
00:05:32time I want there to be people. Okay, I want
00:05:35innocents to die. Innocents, I want. The same people
00:05:39were included in the extortionists' case file last July.
00:05:44A step closer to improving the way of calculating the solidarity contribution
00:05:47of pensioners was brought by the proposal of the General Commissioner of the
00:05:51Court of Auditors, Konstantinos Navlos. He is waiting for us with examples to
00:05:55explain a little what this improvement is, Konstantina. Lena, the issue
00:05:58of the unconstitutionality of the deduction of the solidarity contribution
00:06:02has concerned justice for some time.
00:06:05Let's first see what applies. The pension of approximately 450,000
00:06:09pensioners exceeds €1468. To
00:06:12these, a percentage is withheld which increases the higher
00:06:16the pension, but is calculated from the first.
00:06:19What we are asking for in his appeal to the Court of Auditors, as a citizen, is
00:06:23that only the amount above the
00:06:26limit be withheld. An example will help us understand this. If someone
00:06:30receives a €2,000 pension, they lose
00:06:33€120 per month. If, however, the 6%
00:06:36is calculated on the amount above €1,468, then
00:06:40they lose only €32.
00:06:42Today, the annual deduction in our example is
00:06:45€1,440, while if the
00:06:49proposal of the General Commissioner of the Court of Auditors is accepted, then the
00:06:52deduction will be reduced to €384 per
00:06:55year, and therefore the benefit for the pensioner will be
00:06:59€1,056. For higher amounts, of course, the
00:07:02benefit increases. Here it is worth noting that the
00:07:05decision does not have a cost for the budget, but it will reduce
00:07:09the revenue from the contribution by 350 million. Which
00:07:12today is 3 billion per year. However, there are already
00:07:1625 billion in the Generations Solidarity Social Security Fund,
00:07:19which generate 800 million from interest alone
00:07:23each year, so there is the possibility of
00:07:26reducing and returning retroactively, something that will of course
00:07:29depend on the time it takes for the lawsuits to be filed by the beneficiaries. Thank
00:07:33you very much, Konstantina.
00:07:36In Russia, the nationalization of a Japanese tobacco company
00:07:39was decided by George Felidis, Vladimir Putin. The Russian
00:07:43president ordered that the assets of
00:07:46Japan Tobacco International be placed under the temporary management of a state-owned
00:07:50company with a relevant decree published today. This
00:07:53Japanese tobacco giant, which has four subsidiary
00:07:57companies, dozens of factories, and employs 4,000
00:08:00workers in Russia, is considered the
00:08:04largest manufacturer of tobacco products in the country, holding
00:08:0740% of the sales volume. The
00:08:10decree follows Russia's
00:08:15decision to place the assets of the Swiss food giant Nestlé, the German wholesale group Metro, and the French retail chain Auchan under temporary management in September.
00:08:18τροφίμωνστλέ, του γερμανικού ομήλου χονδρεμπορίου μέτρο
00:08:21και της γαλλικής αλυσίδας γλιανικού εμπορίου Osan.
00:08:25The First Lady of the United States, however, welcomed the
00:08:28delegations of Russia and Ukraine to the White House, and we see the images,
00:08:32after her initiative for a ceasefire in the city of
00:08:35Olesky and the evacuation of hundreds of civilians, George.
00:08:39Melania Trump spoke of a historical significance
00:08:42and an opportunity on the Ukrainian front, emphasizing that it could also be
00:08:46the beginning of a generalized peace, while she highlighted the
00:08:50valuable help offered by Presidents Putin and Zelensky.
00:08:53The First Lady also received congratulations from both sides
00:08:57for her humanitarian intervention. At the end of her
00:09:00speech, and after presenting how the ceasefire plan was executed,
00:09:04she gave the two representatives of Russia and
00:09:07Ukraine a letter she wrote herself, addressed to the
00:09:11presidents of the two countries.
00:09:12war,
00:09:17Let's look at
00:09:21undeniably the an excerpt from her speech, we'll see it, thank you very much, we have chosen humanity over lives of innocent
00:09:23people must transcend the
00:09:26division of war.
00:09:30I hope Olashiki inspires greater
00:09:32peace. Every significant
00:09:35transformation begins with a small
00:09:38spark.
00:09:42So. because we have a decision for the famous
00:09:45actor, Russell Brand, he was found guilty of one
00:09:49rape and three sexual assaults,
00:09:51Giannis.
00:09:54Exactly Lena, a damning decision for the famous British
00:09:57comedian and actor Russell Brand, who was found
00:10:01guilty by a court here in London, as you said, for one
00:10:05rape and three sexual assaults, he has been
00:10:08remanded in custody and now faces a multi-year
00:10:11prison sentence. I should tell you that the court examined a total of
00:10:14seven charges from six women, concerning the period
00:10:181999-2009,
00:10:21when Lena herself was at the peak of her career. He
00:10:25was found guilty of raping a woman at his home in the
00:10:29Hast area of London in 2009, and also for three
00:10:32sexual assaults in workplaces and at
00:10:35a party in Soho, London. On the other hand, he was acquitted
00:10:38of three other charges. However, the legal troubles for the
00:10:4251-year-old comedian do not end here, as Scotland
00:10:45Yard has already sent the files for two more rape allegations to the
00:10:49prosecutor's office. He himself, in his testimonies, denied
00:10:53all the charges, claiming that every contact was
00:10:56consensual, but the prosecution characterized him
00:10:59as a ruthless sexual predator who exploited his
00:11:03fame. Thank you very much. Donald Trump was the
00:11:06darling of satirical shows, he had been honored many
00:11:10times after the election result, Pavla
00:11:12Navagio, they responded to him because he had driven them out
00:11:16and persecuted them, they responded with great
00:11:18humor.
00:11:25The midterms may be over, but American television's satirical
00:11:28shows have just
00:11:31begun.
00:11:38The central theme is, of course, the blue tsunami of Democrats that
00:11:41drowned Donald Trump.
00:12:56Yesterday, the renovation project of the northern facade of the central building of the
00:13:00Ministry of National Defense was inaugurated, which was carried out with a donation from Piraeus
00:13:03Bank. The ceremony was attended by Nikos Dendias and the CEO of
00:13:07Piraeus Bank, Christos Megalou. With a donation from
00:13:10Piraeus Bank, the renovation of
00:13:13the northern facade of the central building of the Ministry of National
00:13:16Defense was carried out. The new bioclimatic facade combines the
00:13:20aesthetic upgrade of the building with the reduction of energy
00:13:23consumption. We responded to this
00:13:26initiative with a sense of responsibility
00:13:30towards our homeland and with the sincere
00:13:34desire to honor those who
00:13:36serve its security and
00:13:39freedom. It is our honor to
00:13:43associate our name with a
00:13:46project that will be and will remain
00:13:49a legacy for future generations.
00:13:52The project is part of Agenda
00:13:552030, which upgrades the armed forces. Piraeus
00:13:58Bank thus enters the ranks of the major
00:14:02sponsors of the Ministry of National Defense. The project bears the
00:14:06signature of the distinguished sculptor, professor at Aristotle University of
00:14:10Thessaloniki, Konstantinos Varotsos. It would not
00:14:13be possible if we did not have our
00:14:16sponsors who supported this
00:14:20effort. They gave the strength and
00:14:23the ability. So that we can do this
00:14:26work and I want to thank
00:14:30Piraeus Bank for its help. With this
00:14:33project, the external
00:14:37architectural renovation of the central building was completed and the
00:14:41renovation of the interior
00:14:42spaces continues.
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00:18:09Souzi and Taico News, don't miss the Blue Hours series at 9:00 PM
00:18:13from all of us, have a beautiful and peaceful evening.
00:18:32Ladies and gentlemen, good evening and welcome to Eco News by
00:18:36Thee. New measures to enhance health and safety in the
00:18:39workplace are being introduced by the Ministry of Labour.
00:18:43The new presidential decree provides for stricter limits on
00:18:46exposure to hazardous chemical substances, enhanced
00:18:49monitoring of workers' health, and the development of
00:18:52digital tools for better recording and management of
00:18:56risks during work. Mr. Karagounis,
00:19:00what are the main changes brought by the new presidential decree for the
00:19:03protection of workers' health and safety? What changes?
00:19:07In practical terms, the Ministry of Labour
00:19:10proceeded to issue Presidential Decree 65 of
00:19:132026 for the protection of workers from
00:19:17lead exposure, essentially strengthening the framework
00:19:20for the protection of workers from exposure to hazardous chemical
00:19:24agents. We establish new revised occupational exposure limit
00:19:27values and new biological limit values, and
00:19:31provisions are updated regarding the enhancement of health surveillance
00:19:34of workers for lead and its compounds,
00:19:38substances toxic to reproduction.
00:19:41We revise the lower limits and establish
00:19:44for the first time limit values for hazardous
00:19:48chemical substances and I should also remind you that
00:19:51a new presidential decree for
00:19:54asbestos is coming. Greece is a pioneer and
00:19:58innovator in dealing with extreme weather
00:20:01conditions, we are constantly issuing circulars, we are taking
00:20:05organizational measures and of course. We proceed when necessary and
00:20:08when required to suspend operations. How is the development of digital
00:20:12tools expected to contribute to the recording of hazardous chemical substances
00:20:16and protection measures in
00:20:20workplaces, enhancing the prevention of occupational
00:20:23hazards arising during work.
00:20:27We are taking another significant step towards protecting working
00:20:30people. We are strengthening the protection limits against hazardous
00:20:34chemical substances. We are upgrading
00:20:37the health follow-up of workers and utilizing modern digital
00:20:40tools for better recording of risks and more
00:20:44effective conduct of inspections. For us,
00:20:47prevention is not a formal obligation, but... a practical
00:20:50commitment to every employee, we invest in a
00:20:53modern framework of health and safety with rules,
00:20:56controls and substantial protection in practice and these
00:20:59digital tools in combination with controls by the independent
00:21:03Labour Inspectorate safeguard the health and
00:21:06safety of workers. Ladies and gentlemen, see you in the next
00:21:10episode of Econows by Thee, good
00:21:12night.
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00:27:55initiative of the Ministry of Tourism, from the olive
00:27:59harvest in Messinia and the vineyards of Naoussa.
00:28:02Up to the mastic villages of Chios and the flavors of Crete and
00:28:06Epirus, the publication highlights the authentic
00:28:09experiences a visitor
00:28:12The aim of the initiative is to promote a different side of the
00:28:16country, beyond the sun and the sea, emphasizing
00:28:20gastronomy, agricultural production and the traditions of each
00:28:24place. The promotion comes at a time when Tag Greece
00:28:27is participating in the international tourism exhibition World Travel
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