Crime

An independent Afghan anti-corruption body says that nepotism plays a critical role in getting a job as a diplomat in the country's Foreign Affairs Ministry.

In a report released on June 3, the Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee says favoritism and patronage often prevail over merit and ability in diplomatic appointments.

Four teenagers in northern Turkey are accused of raping one of their ex-girlfriends for breaking his heart.

According to security sources speaking to daily Hürriyet, a second-year high school student identified as F.Ü. took his girlfriend to an empty lot in the Sinop province on May 25 after she said she wanted to break up. 

In 2014, officials reported receiving 477 gifts, "more of them appropriate (270) than protocol-related (207)," shows the Anti-Corruption Agency's updated data.

Bulgarians often become victims of labor exploitation abroad, according to a report of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).

FRA's new report is the first of its kind to comprehensively explore all criminal forms of labor exploitation in the EU affecting workers moving within or into the EU.

A hostage situation aboard the passenger ferry, Kriti 2, on a route from Crete to Piraeus ended when the police stormed on board. Early reports showed that a passenger, aged 30, held a female hostage on board, threatening her with a broken glass.

The hostage-taker was monitored by the crew whereas the other passengers, roughly around 600 people, had been distanced from the scene.

Police confirmed on Saturday that they have arrested two men in a raid to catch the men suspected of carrying out 400,000-euro robbery last year. A third man died during the operation near Volos, central Greece.

According to officers, Spyros Christodoulou (45) and Grigoris Tsironis (37) were arrested but Spyros Dravilas (34) committed suicide to prevent being caught.

Even 30 years would not suffice for the existing mechanisms to complete their investigation of all seven lists of suspected tax dodgers and money launderers that financial prosecutors have in their hands, accounting for billions of euros.

Police are reportedly closing in on Greece’s most wanted fugitive, bank robber and kidnap-for-ransom mastermind Vassilis Paleokostas, near the town of Nea Aghialos, in central Greece.
Two individuals have already been arrested.

An investigation was launched May 28 into social media posts made by a number of prominent media figures during the March 31 hostage crisis in Istanbul?s Ça?layan courthouse, Al Jazeera Türk has reported.

The Croatian justice ministry confirmed that former Serb paramilitary leader Dragan Vasiljkovic will be extradited from Australia to Croatia by July 15 to stand trial for alleged war crimes.