Prosecutor

A senior fire service officer has been handed a two-year suspended sentence for submitting false information to the prosecuting authorities during their investigation of the 2018 Mati fire, in which 104 people lost their lives.

The officer, Ioannis Fostieris, was the commander of the fire service's united operations coordination center when the fire happened.

A Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered a probe into possible disciplinary liabilities on the part of a prosecutor in Larissa, who, in the context of the investigation of the 2023 Tempe railway collision, shelved complaints against political figures, instead of forwarding them to Parliament.

The protagonist of the criminal ring, who has been on the run abroad since 2005, is expected to appear before the prosecutor for the execution of sentences today

The Prosecutor of the Supreme Court has brought charges of electoral fraud against eleven lawmakers of the far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party, Kathimerini understands, in a case that could affect the parliamentary seats of the other parties. 

The charges do not include party leader Vassilis Stigas.

The long-awaited conclusion of the investigation into gambling mogul and oligarch Vasil Bojkov has been announced by the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday. With an indictment pending, Bojkov faces accusations of attempted rape, murder, and abetting in murder.

The Council of Europe's anti-corruption body GRECO had criticized Greece's refusal to allow peers to be involved in the process of appointing senior judges and prosecutors.

The former head of the Prosecutor's Office on the Ionian island of Corfu is going on trial on Tuesday, accused of abuses of power and the manipulation of public documents that resulted in thousands of criminal charges being dropped.

In an incident during Monday's parliamentary investigation into the Tempe rail crash, Zoi Konstantopoulou, leader of the Course of Freedom party, sought to put pressure on the commitee despite being excluded from speaking due to a conflict of interest.

The Tempe train collision in February 2023 resulted in the loss of 57 lives and left numerous others injured. 

Relatives of the victims of the Tempe train collision in central Greece in late February last year attend a press conference on Monday at the Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) headquarters.

The Athens Prosecutor's Office has closed the case against four members of the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, for allegedly leaking information about the wiretapping of a journalist to the press, Kathimerini understands.