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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.
BOSTON – A Boston man accused of posing as a member of a wealthy Greek shipping family is accused of defrauding investors out of more than $300,000.
The story was broken by the Boston electronic and print media and was also posted on the website of The Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC announced charges against Vassilios Trikantzopoulos and his business, Navis Ventures LLC.
According to the SEC's complaint, since at least 2015, Trikantzopoulos allegedly has posed as the scion of a wealthy Greek shipping family and claimed to be a highly successful money manager, responsible for overseeing $100 million or more of family assets.
Trikantzopoulos is accused of soliciting investors for various international real estate ventures, pledging hefty profits and offering "secured" promises that, if the ventures did not go forward, investors' funds would be returned in full.
According to the complaint, Trikantzopoulos used investor money for ventures with no apparent success, his own businesses had no substantial assets or operations, and he has failed to refund investors as promised.
Trikantzopoulos also diverted tens of thousands of dollars for his own personal use and to pay rent and other expenses, the SEC said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.