Athens court

A request for the dismissal of two special magistrates, Ioanna Klapa and Maria Dimitripoulou, who are leading a probe into the activities of ultra nationalist party Golden Dawn was rejected by an Athens court on Tuesday.

The request was filed by party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, currently in pre-trial custody over charges of organizing and managing a criminal organization.

An Athens court on Tuesday ordered the conditional release of businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis. The former major stakeholder in Proton Bank was ordered to pay 500,000 euros in bail and was banned from exiting the country. Following his release he will also have to report to his local police precinct at regular intervals.

Golden Dawn lawmaker Polyvios Zisimopoulos on Friday was granted an extension regarding his deposition in a probe into the alleged criminal activities of the ultra nationalist party.

Zisimopoulos, who is facing charges over belonging to and running a criminal organization, was ordered to appear before the two magistrates handling the case on June 27.

All three defendants in the trial relating to the April 2013 murder of a young woman in Nea Makri, eastern Attica, were found guilty as charged by an Athens court on Thursday.

Faye Blacha was 23 when she suffered fatal injuries during a beating over a year ago at the hands of her boyfriend, Vangelis Stefanakis, aged 26. He was handed a life sentence.

The two magistrates investigating the suspected criminal activities of far-right party Golden Dawn granted MP Eleni Zaroulia several days to prepare her testimony.

Zaroulia, who is answering to charges of belonging to and running a criminal organization, was given until June 17 to respond to the charges.

A bomb threat interrupted Golden Dawn MP Eleni Zaroulia's testimony before an Athens court on Thursday.

Zaroulia, who is the wife of the neo-Nazi party's detained leader Nikos Michaloliakos, was facing magistrates on charges of joining and directing a criminal organization.

She was expected to deny the charges.

A public prosecutor on Wednesday asked an Athens court to deliver a guilty verdict in the case of a 23-year-old theology student accused of stabbing a 17-year-old high-school senior outside his school in Palaio Faliro, southern Athens, in January 2013.

An Athens court has found 13 people guilty in connection with the 2007 structured bonds scandal.

The defendants were found guilty of a series of offenses including fraud, breach of faith, setting up a criminal organization, money laundering and tax evasion.

Former special secretary at the Ministry of Labor, Evgenios Papadopoulos, was acquitted of charges.

Fired Finance Ministry cleaners blocked the entrance to the ministry on Thursday protesting the Greek government's failure to comply with an Athens court decision earlier this month that they be reinstated.

Police are at the scene, but have not intervened.

Some 400 Finance Ministry cleaners who were placed in a labor pool eight months ago said on Friday that they will return to work on Monday after an Athens court upheld their appeal against the decision.

The ruling comes as the period of assessment after which it will be decided whether they will be let go or rehired is about to expire.