Top lawyer arrested over prison gang

One of the most high-profile criminal lawyers in the country, Alexandros Lykourezos, was arrested on Thursday by officers of the police's counterterrorism unit in connection with the so-called "mafia" said to be operating in the Korydallos maximum-security prison in Athens. Another lawyer and an associate of Lykourezos was also arrested on Friday morning.
Lykourezos, 85, is expected to face a special magistrate on Friday. 
A third lawyer, Giorgos Antonopoulos, was remanded in custody earlier this month in connection with the same case after counterterrorism officers established that he had been in frequent telephone contact with Claudian Lekotsai, nicknamed "Claudie," believed to be the head of the prison gang.
Lykourezos and Panagopoulos had represented Antonopoulos in a trial against two Albanian convicts accused of an attempt on his life in 2014. (The two convicts...