Center for Disease Control

Lina Nikolopoulou-Stournara, who is married to Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras, lodged a complaint Friday with the Supreme Court over a recent raid on the offices of her communications company Mindwork Business Solutions.

A ruling by the Council of State, Greece's highest administrative court, stipulating that the actions of Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, which led to the compulsory resignation of three board members of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, known as KEELPNO, were unconstitutional and unlawful should greatly trouble the current SYRIZA-Independent Greeks administration

A ruling issued Tuesday by the Council of State deemed that a decision in May by Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis to force the resignation of three members of the managing board of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) was illegal and in violation of the Constitution.

Investigators on Thursday carried out surprise raids on the company offices of Stavroula Nikolopoulou, the spouse of Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras, as well as the couple's home, as part of a probe into the alleged mismanagement of state funding for the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO).

Chief corruption prosecutor Eleni Raikou on Thursday ordered a search of the company offices of Stavroula Nikolopoulou, the spouse of BoG governor Yannis Stournaras, as well as the couple's home.

New Democracy Vice President Adonis Georgiadis (photo) and conservative MP Costas Tzavaras are taking lead action against Deputy Health Minister Pavlos Polakis and ministry aides in connection to a list of appointees at the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, KEELPNO.

Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis asked the members of the board of directors of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) to resign late on Wednesday. The alternate minister took to his Facebook account to announce the appointment of a new boad in the near future.

The Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEEPLNO) confirmed that a Dutch tourist is currently being treated at a large private hospital in Athens after being infected by cholera. KEELPNO President Thanasis Giannopoulos stated that doctors fear the possibility of a cholera outbreak.

Laboratory inspections on a white powder found in an envelope that was mailed to the capital?s Evelpidon court complex on Wednesday, prompting a security alert, did not test positive for anthrax or other substances associated with bioterrorism, according to Athanasios Tsakris, a microbiologist at Athens Medical School.

Greek mayors on Thursday promised to support the government?s emergency plan for dealing with an increased influx of immigrants as long as their contribution is funded by the state.