Suspect arrested over 1mln Euro NGO debts to the state

Police officials in the northern city of Alexandroupoli, (in northeastern Greece), arrested a 50-year-old former legal representative of a Greek non-governmental organization (NGO) on suspicion of owing the state more than one million euros, the weekly To Pontiki newspaper said in one report. The debt, said the article, apparently concerns the activity of the Hellenic Association for International Development (HAID). The now-defunct NGO was allegedly set up to combat illiteracy among Muslim populations in Romania, Turkey, Ukraine and North Korea. The suspect was due to face a prosecutor in Alexandroupoli.