Criminal law

A Thessaloniki man was sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison for defrauding a farmer who had won a considerable amount in the lottery.

The man and a lawyer convinced the farmer to part with tens of thousands of euros to invest in face masks during the pandemic, in solar farms and in real estate, all of them nonexistent investment schemes.

Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz has been freed from custody in Greece but banned from travelling outside the country as he awaits a court ruling on a Romanian-issued arrest warrant, police and legal sources said Monday.

Steinmetz was detained by Greek police on Sunday evening, hours after arriving on a private aircraft at Athens International Airport, police sources said.

Diddy has filed a third appeal, seeking to be released from jail before his trial.

European leaders are expected to call for the “accelerated return” of illegal migrants from the EU, according to draft conclusions of the European Council on 17-18 October.

The government of Georgia Meloni has decided to tighten the rules on immigration.

A Georgian national was detained on the Trakia highway for transporting foreigners without identity documents, as reported by the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia. The incident occurred yesterday before noon when police stopped a van for inspection and discovered 44 men inside, all of whom identified themselves as Afghans.

The Italian government plans to impose fines of up to 10,000 euros on aircraft pilots who search for migrant boats, according to a draft government decree.

Police officers arrested two traffickers of illegal immigrants after a chase in the center of Athens on Sunday morning.

According to the an announcement, the arrests were made after DIAS officers spotted a car with many passengers moving on Acharnon Street.

A man aged 47 and a woman, 45, have been charged with migrant smuggling, resisting arrest and document forgery, among other offenses, after police caught them transporting seven undocumented migrants in central Athens, according to an announcement on Tuesday.

Eight migrants died on Sunday when their overcrowded vessel capsized while trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French authorities said, less than two weeks after the deadliest such disaster this year.