Economic Crimes  Also known as "White-collar crime" is a financially motivated, economic, non-violent crime committed for illegal monetary gain. Within the field of criminology, the term "white-collar crime" was initially defined by Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" (1939). E. Sutherland was a proponent...

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Lawyers Greece - Property / Real Estate Generally, there are no restrictions in purchasing property in Greece, apart from certain specified by law areas, for which a special license is required for non E.U. citizens or companies. For the legal or physical E.U entities all restrictions have been lifted long ago for the whole Greek territory, so that the E.U. citizens...

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Inheritance The Greek Inheritance Law is regulated by a whole section of the Greek Civil Code, namely the articles 1710 to 2035.There are two main categories in inheritance succession:a) Succession by virtue of a testament (will).b) Succession by virtue of law, which implies in cases that either there is no will, or the will has been claimed invalid.a) Succession by virtue...

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