There is no information indicating any extremist group planning an attack against the Athens Olympics, Greek Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis said Tuesday.
Voulgarakis made the remarks following his meeting in Athens with Ronald Noble, secretary general of international police agency Interpol.
Greek Police (EL.AS) chief Fotis Nassiakos also attended the meeting.
Noble said he was absolutely satisfied with the way security issues are being handled ahead of the Games, while citing the huge amount of money and manpower Greece is allocating for Olympic security.
Athens is spending more than 1.2 billion US dollars on security for the Aug 13-29 Olympics, and plans to deploy 70,000 Greece police and soldiers.
Information exchange between Greece and Interpol is to be stepped up from July 1 on -- the day Greece's one-billion-euro (1.2-billion-US-dollar) security program for the Games starts.
Asked about an Interpol-managed crime databank, Noble said one million entries of stolen passports and police ID cards have already been entered, whereas he noted that Greece will be among the first countries to utilize this databank.
Noble was set to tour the main Athens Olympic Stadium (OAKA) and Olympic Village later in the day.