Court of Appeal

The fugitive ex-judge Antonia Ilia appeared before a Court of Appeal on Friday after her extradition from the UK and is expected to be transferred to the Eleonas Prison in Thiva.

She had been sentenced to 13 years in prison for money laundering in 2005 in absentia as she had already left the country.

The last two floors and the rooftop bar of the Coco-Mat hotel in the Makrigianni area of central Athens that had been declared illegal for exceeding the height of 24 meters were sealed last week by the Ministry of Tourism, after the Court of Appeal rejected the suspension request submitted by the owner company. 

The police's Anti-Terrorism Division launched raids in different parts of Athens on Tuesday that were most likely linked to a parcel bomb that was sent to the prosecutor of the Appeal Court of Thessaloniki earlier in the month.

A previously unknown anarchist guerrilla group group identifying themselves as "Armed Response" has claimed responsibility for the failed bomb attack against a judge at the Thessaloniki courthouse in northern Greece last week, the third such incident since December.

Investigators are reportedly working on the assumption that the envelope containing explosives that was sent on Monday to the Thessaloniki courthouse addressed to the president of the Court of Appeal was an attempted terrorist attack without, however, correlating the case with the recent strikes at the headquarters of the riot police in Goudi and the Ministry of Labor.

"The special department for organized crime of the Appellate Court in Belgrade, after the hearing, issued a verdict on April 19, 2023, which, by accepting the appeals of the defense and partially accepting the appeal of the Prosecutor's Office, changed the first-instance verdict and acquitted the defendant Radomir Markovi of the charge of having committed the crime of aggravated murder in incit

A terminally ill baby at the center of a legal battle involving her parents, British health officials and the Italian government has died, a group supporting her family said Monday.

Christian Concern said Indi Gregory died in a hospice on Monday morning after her life support was withdrawn on Sunday.

In a potentially precedent-setting decision in Cyprus, the Limassol District Court has upheld its initial ruling in favor of a Russian depositor at now-defunct Laiki Bank, potentially exposing the state to financial implications of up to 2-3 billion euros. The court's decision, which awarded €780,000 in compensation to the depositor, could have far-reaching consequences for Cyprus.

"Today's hearing was closed to the public, in my opinion, in an illegal way, and that issue will be discussed sometime, when our case will be before the Court of Appeal.

According to this decision, the detention of the defendant can last until October 30, it was announced on the court's website.