Greek Mayor's Killer Still On Payroll

PANGAIO, Greece?A local treasury employee in this mountain community shot the mayor with an Uzi submachine gun in late 2009, in the grisly conclusion to a suspected embezzlement scheme. Nearly three years after he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Savvas Saltouridis remains on the municipal payroll. Co-worker Ioakeim Monos, sentenced to 16 years for complicity in the murder, also remains on the payroll. The two men, who are appealing their convictions, have been in prison for years. International creditors - now evaluating Greece's adherence to terms of two bailouts and weighing a possible third - have called on the country to shape up its public-sector workforce and dismiss thousands of workers deemed unsuitable. The case in Pangaio suggests how hard that is likely to be.

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