Athens court

An Athens court has exonerated 18 police officers accused by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras when he was still in the opposition of using excessive force during an anti-austerity protest in the summer of 2011.

An Athens court handed down two life sentences to a 58-year-old man for the murder of a 32-year-old tax officer last year.

A prosecutor had earlier proposed a guilty verdict, without mitigating circumstances.

A 32-year-old Afghan has been arrested for the fatal stabbing in April of a 20-year-old compatriot in the Omonia area of central Athens.

According to police, he was nabbed on Wednesday after an Athens court issued an arrest warrant.

The stabbing occurred after a verbal altercation between the victim and the 32-year-old's girlfriend.

The Capital Market Commission is toughening up its attitude toward the listed Folli Follie group, with sources at the stock market watchdog saying that a decision has already been reached to take its board members to court on charges of manipulating the market.

The Council of State has ordered the Greek state to pay 350,000 euros in damages to the relatives of a 24-year-old man who was killed in 2005 when the car he was driving crashed into an illegal billboard on the side of the capital's Kifissias Avenue.

An Athens court on Thursday cleared 51 out of 58 members of the Public Power Corporation's labor union GENOP of fraud charges in connection with some 1 million euros in subsidies granted by the PPC to GENOP that were used for trips and other luxuries.

Seven GENOP members were found guilty and given prison sentences ranging from three to five years, all suspended pending appeal.

An Athens court on Monday handed down an 18-month prison sentence to a 25-year-old university student for taking part in the physical assault against Panteio University professor Angelos Syrigos early last year.  

The student was identified by Syrigos as one of the individuals that attacked him after he scolded them for writing slogans on a freshly-painted wall at the university. 

Police have issued international arrest warrants for three Albanian nationals over the murder last month of a 19-year-old man in the northern Athens suburb of Maroussi.

The suspects, aged 23, 24 and 33, were also charged with the attempted murder of the victim's three friends.

An Athens court on Monday will be hearing the appeal of two men convicted in 2014 for the 2013 murder of a 27-year-old Pakistani national while he was cycling to work one morning.

Christos Steriopoulos, 33, and Dionysis Liakopoulos, 29, were convicted to life in prison after stabbing Luqman Shehzad, then 27, seven times on January 17, 2013, in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona.

A Greek court has refused to extradite to Malta a whistleblower who helped a murdered Maltese journalist investigate money-laundering in high places.

Malta wants to arrest Russian former bank employee Maria Efimova for allegedly providing false evidence that could lead to another's conviction, making false accusations to authorities, and theft.