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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Yiannis Anthopoulos, who served as Education Minister in a former PASOK Socialist government, was convicted by a criminal appeals court for collusion in usury and money laundering, in a case involving a loan granted to a tobacco seller from Kavala, northern Greece.
But like other high-profile politicians convicted of crimes, he won’t go to jail, receiving a 15-year suspended sentence and as the court ordered the seizure of his home in the wealthy enclave of Voula on Athens’ coast, and confiscation of his bank accounts of 1.7 million euros ($1.93 million).
Another three co-defendants were convicted for usury and ordered to pay back a total of 5.7 million euros ($6.46 million), said Kathimerini, and all lost their rights to vote for five years and barred from leaving the country.
The case filed alleged he was an intermediary from 2002-2005 in order for tobacco company owner Odetti Petridi to receive a usurious loan from the company of the politician’s co-defendants, totaling 17.6 million euros ($19.94 million) at unlawful interest rates, which earned Anthopoulos 1.7 million euros ($1.93 million).
The case was revealed a few years ago after the financial crimes unit SDOE discovered money in the bank accounts of the former minister and his wife which he was not able to legally justify, leading him to be accused of forcing Petridi to pay him off through usury which Anthopoulos claimed was just a loan.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.