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Nineteen Energa and Hellas Power executives were expected to stand trial in connection to a case of money laundering, embezzlement and breach of faith on the part of the two private electricity providers, after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the defendants.

Laid-off cleaning staff from the Finance Ministry were on Wednesday staging a protest outside the General Accounting Office in Athens.

Cleaners, now in their second month of protest, were demanding a meeting with deputy Finance Minister Christos Staikouras.

Head of the Constitutional Court Haşim Kılıç said, “I have known our colleagues in the Supreme Court of Appeals [Yargıtay] for years. They have been conducting their duties successfully. They are equipped, informed and experienced … It is a qualified and meticulous team, in good command of incidents.”

The Finance Ministry on Tuesday submitted to Parliament an amendment abolishing cuts to judges’ salaries and pensions that have been enforced since August 2012 as part of troika-imposed reforms.

The move came a day after a court ruled that retroactive cuts imposed on the pensions of judicial officials were unconstitutional.

Nikos Chrysoloras & Eleni Chrepa

Katerina Savvaidou, nominated Greece’s top tax collector, has her job cut out for her.

The 13th Istanbul High Criminal Court ruled June 23 for the retrial of several convicted suspects, including Fenerbahçe’s outspoken chairman Aziz Yıldırım, in the match-fixing case that had shaken the country’s football scene.

The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on June 20 to release Hanefi Avcı, a former police chief who was
sentenced to 15 years in jail for a book he wrote.

Former chief of the Turkish General Staff retired Gen Hilmi Özkök has expressed readiness to testify if summoned in the retrial of the Balyoz coup plot case after Turkey’s top court’s ruling

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has suggested the top court’s Balyoz ruling has proven their party right, as they have constantly criticized the judicial process related to the case from the very beginning.

Laid off cleaning staff from the Finance Ministry staged a protest Thursday outside the headquarters of Greek coalition leaders New Democracy on Syngrou Avenue in Athens.

Protesters, who had tied nooses around their necks in a symbolic gesture, shouted slogans against their dismissal and briefly blocked the entrance to the offices of the conservative party.