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BELGRADE - The Serbian Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime on Monday indicted Branko Lazarevic, former head of the interior minister's office, and three other men for disclosing police information on tracking and wiretapping of the group led by Darko Saric, charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Ksenija Bozovic, vice-president of the Citizens' Initiative (GI) "Serbia, Democracy, Justice" (SDP), voiced the expectation on Monday that the trial of GI SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic would begin soon, so that he could prove his innocence.

Retired general Karlo Gornisek told Zagreb county court on Friday that the notorious ‘Mercepovci' police unit, colloquially named after their alleged commander Mercep, a former interior ministry adviser, might not actually have been led by the defendant.

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola selakovic called on the Bar Association of Serbia (AKS) to invalidate the Ordinance according to which lawyers are obliged to go on strike on the threat of disciplinary sanctions and bar chamber exclusion, because the documents constitutes violation of the Serbian Constitution and a number of other laws.

Two men believed to be members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party were sent to prison on Monday after an Athens court convicted them over the stabbing of a Greek and a Spanish national at the Antipnoia venue in Kato Petralona, central, Athens, in June 2008.

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on Sunday evening rejected two notifications filed against the presidential candidacy of Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader and Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

A 25-year-old man and his 22-year-old wife were being questioned by police in the western port of Patra on Tuesday after they allegedly unlawfully removed their infant from a pediatric clinic in the city’s university hospital on Monday despite having been deprived of custody in a recent court ruling.

The Turkish government has said the ball is in the court of the country’s banking watchdog, regarding Islamic lender Bank Asya’s efforts to recover its collapsed capital base.

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) admitted on Tuesday a notification from the Ombudsman, and ruled that a law requesting the identification of the users of prepaid mobile phone cards was unconstitutional.

Detention ordered for suspects in attack on German

BELGRADE -- The Higher Court in Belgrade has ordered detention of up to 30 days for three persons suspected of assaulting a German citizen over the weekend.

They have been identified with their initials as S.V, L.M., and V.I.