A meat importer based in Chania, Crete seems to hold the record for tax dodging, which through intermediary "ghost" firms cheated the state and slipped through tax checks.

Police freed eight Syrian nationals that were found chained and subjected to frequent beatings, treated worse than slaves, from a house in Koropi.

Snow at Northern Greece's ski resorts remains at marginal levels, but the ski resorts of Vassilitsa, 3-5 Pigadia and Pisoderi have enough snow to be open.