On Friday, June 20, 2025, a hospital physician, accused of continuous bribery by the Northern Greece Home Affairs Service, was arrested on Friday, June 20, 2025.

“Yesterday, after a patient complaint, a professor of cardiac surgeon in Larissa PGN was arrested because he asked for 2,500 € from a patient to perform planned surgery,” Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said in a post and adds:

“It was immediately made available and we canceled all its surgeries. I am really sorry that while we have already given the possibility of practicing a parallel private work and extra money with afternoon surgeries, there are still unconscious doctors who take advantage of the difficult time of patients and their families. These few have no place in the NSS! If this complaint proves to be, truly ashamed and to anyone else. “

According to police, the case file includes another hospital physician, charged with simple complicity in bribery.

In particular, the physician was arrested after receipt of the € 2,500 bid, which had requested a relative of a patient before and after a medical act.

Further, in the context of the investigation, it was found to be involved in another 2,500 -euro bribery.

The survey conducted in his office of the detainee, in addition to the pronounced amount, were also found and seized 11,250 euros.

The detainee was taken to the competent prosecutor’s office.