Basketball phones and the surprises they may reveal, mayors up in arms over building rules, and a decisive day for Tsavdaridis

Hello! I’ll start with a corruption case that occupied us a few weeks ago, involving bribery and match-fixing in basketball, for which several people were remanded in custody. I’ve been reading reports and social media posts about when, or indeed whether, the mobile phones of those detained will be unlocked. I naturally assume they will be accessed at some point, and there are rumours that the relevant cybercrime authorities will find, or retrieve, highly sensitive messages concerning bribes, transactions, political favours and the like. A source of mine, one who is rarely wrong, told me that these messages do indeed…