Supreme Court

The High Court of Cassation and Justice admitted on Saturday Elena Udrea's request to attend on Monday the Chamber of Deputies' sitting that will debate and vote on two requests to prosecute and remand her on new counts in the Bute Boxing Gala case.

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Judiciary sources told AGERPRES Prime Minister Victor Ponta will be subpoenaed by the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) to testify in the Referendum case, where Vice Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea is indicted.

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The state prosecution has dropped charges of attempted murder against the man who attacked the DPS party's honorary chair Ahmed Dogan in 2013.

Oktay Enimehdemov was sentenced in February to three-and-a-half years of imprisonment after found guilty of death threat, but was acquitted of attempted murder. The Sofia Appellate Court in October upheld the sentence.

Zaganjori told reporters that during 2014, the Supreme Court had managed to hear all the cases registered between 2007 and 2011.

"The civil-administrative panel is now reviewing cases registered in 2012 and the criminal panel, those registered in 2013," he explained.

Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) is to determine on Thursday next week who will take over as interim head of the Sofia City Court, Yasen Todorov, from the Ethics Committee at the VSS, has said.

Todorov's interview with public broadcaster BNT followed a VSS step to remove the court's chairperson Vladimira Yaneva from office.

Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) has voted unanimously to remove from office Vladimira Yaneva, Chair of the Sofia City Court.

Thursday's decision of the VSS involves the removal of Yaneva from the post of Sofia City Court Chair and from the post of a judge.

An appeals court in Thessaloniki on Wednesday rejected a request by the city?s former mayor, Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, who is serving a prison term for embezzlement, to be released from jail until the Supreme Court hears his appeal against his sentence.

The Montenegrin parliament on Tuesday adopted a controversial new law on the National Security Agency, NSA, by which intelligence officers can access all databases in Montenegro only by showing official identification cards.

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski declined on Monday to comment directly on the latest press conference of the opposition Social Democrats SDSM on Sunday, where five recordings were presented involving discussions between state officials, judges and a pro-government news editor on appointments of judges as well as court cases and prosecutors' work.

A first-of-a-kind meeting is due on Tuesday between Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov, newly-elected cassation court head Lozan Panov and Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov in Sofia.