Apostolos

In the wake of serious floods prompted by heavy rainfall in Attica last Friday, fire service officials had by Thursday recorded damage to 1,085 properties and 422 vehicles.

A total of 395 people had filed for the emergency compensation set at 586 euros.

The deadline for submitting applications for compensation is Friday.

A Thessaloniki court on Wednesday handed an 18-year prison sentence to Eleftherios Valavanis, a former mayor of the municipality of Apostolos Pavlos in Imathia, northern Greece, for embezzling 1.3 million euros in municipal funds.

A former town hall cashier received 10 years behind bars and was released pending appeal.

PASOK veteran Apostolos Kaklamanis revealed in a statement on Friday that on November 8, 2011, he accepted an offer from then Prime Minister George Papandreou to become interim premier after the latter’s aborted effort to hold a referendum on Greece’s second bailout.

In the statement, Kaklamanis explained that he held brief talks with Papandreou before agreeing to take on the role.