GREECE FACES TOUGH STRUGGLE TO FIGHT RESURGENT ORGANISED CRIME
November 1st, 2006
BY DAVID HAWORTH
GREECE has usually been at the better end of any crime statistic league table, but the picture has darkened recently, writes David Haworth. The country is the European Union's second most corrupt (after Poland), while money laundering and drugs have also made their ugly marks.
IT'S no surprise that Greeks take a rather worldly view of corruption when, for example, more than 20 members of the judiciary are currently under criminal investigations of one kind or another, but even those seasoned in local ways were shocked by the arrest in September ...
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