Corporate crime

An Indian businessman who is one of the world's richest people has been indicted in the U.S. on charges he duped investors in a massive solar energy project in his home country by concealing that it was being facilitated by an alleged bribery scheme.

A doctor at a public hospital in Thessaloniki in northern Greece has been handed a 10-month suspended prison sentence for accepting bribes from patients. The Three-Member Misdemeanor Court of Thessaloniki found him guilty of bribery, with the court recognizing his previously clean record as a mitigating factor.

A Thessaloniki criminal court has acquitted 17 former patients and their relatives on charges of paying bribes to a cardiologist.

Chevron and its partners, Shell and NewMed Energy, have put forward a new $4 billion plan to develop the Aphrodite gas field off Cyprus. The proposal comes after Cyprus warned it might revoke the license for the project due to delays.

The updated plan aims to address Cyprus' concerns but comes with a significantly higher price tag compared to previous proposals.

A Chevron-led consortium that holds licensing rights over a gas field off Cyprus will present an updated development plan within days, one of the partners said on Monday, after Cyprus gave them a three-month deadline to comply.

A Chevron-led consortium that holds licensing rights over a gas field off Cyprus will present an updated development plan within days, one of the partners has said, after Cyprus gave them a three-month deadline to comply.

An employee of the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) accused of bribery was suspended from duties on Thursday.

The “mafia” of municipal employees in Athens, which, in collaboration with private individuals, provided protection to shopkeepers in the capital, extorting them, with no compensation, had the organization and “structure” of a criminal organization, with “brains”, a “cashier”, a “collector” and a driver.

The director and four employees at the Halkida tax office, on Evia island, were arrested on bribery charges on Wednesday.

Cyprus' Energy Ministry announced on Thursday that it has rejected the proposal Chevron, the managing company of the "Aphrodite" natural gas field, submitted on March 29, about the optimization of the approved development and production plan of the field.