The defender for the father declined to comment on whether Stanislav had told the investigator that his friend Nikolay had helped him annihilate the body.

The authorities in Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, Serbia, Cyprus, Macedonia and Turkey have placed Greek banks under complete isolation in order to limit the effects of a possible Greek "incident" on their banking systems.

Stanislav Bakardjiev faced today the court in Athens too, on charges of drug possession and distribution, but his defender Panagiotis Chrisikakis requested that the case be postponed.

This is the amount of Greece’s annual IMF membership contribution that the institution has agreed to accept as a payment on the loan.