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ATHENS - A Greek Orthodox priest has been arrested on suspicion of accessory to prostitution by an undercover police officer posing as a client, the semi-state Athens News Agency reports.

The unidentified clergyman, 42, was arrested on the island of Lesvos late Thursday outside a local hotel room where he had left the undercover officer with a 20-year-old Polish woman, the agency said.

The priest had brought the woman to her presumed client at a local bar earlier that evening, demanding a fee of 100 euros (120 dollars).

He will be arraigned before a prosecutor on Lesvos.

Greece's powerful Orthodox Church is still recovering from a series of high-profile sex and corruption scandals earlier this year that tarnished its image.

An investigation is currently ongoing into an alleged graft ring said to have included judges, lawyers and Greek Orthodox clerics.

Sapa-AFP

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