Criminal law

A former official in the Greek Ministry of Culture is quoted by Washington Post as stating that an unnamed Greek shipping tycoon with operations in both Athens and London is interested in paying for Amal Clooney and the expensive Doughty Streets Chambers to represent cash-strapped Greece in the legal bid for the return of the Parthenon Marbles.

Police have made another two arrests after catching Angeliki Sotiropoulou, an alleged accomplice of November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros and members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group.

The 36 year old woman accused of being a messenger for those incarcerated on charges of terrorist acts and Aggeliki, a woman wanted by the police, was arrested on Saturday evening.

Indictment expected in Strpci war crimes case after 22 years

BELGRADE -- B92 has received confirmation that the War Crimes Prosecution will in the coming days bring charges against five suspects in the Strpci case.

Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told Radio B92 that 22 years after the crime, it has been discovered what led to the abduction and executions.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic Wednesday called for releasing Citizens' Initiative 'Freedom, Democracy, Justice' (SDP) leader Oliver Ivanovic and three other Serbs from detention in Kosovska Mitrovica pending a verdict.

The parliamentary anti-corruption committee on Monday questioned Interior Minister Rasko Konjevic, the supreme state prosecutor Ivica Stankovic and director of public procurement Mersud Mujevic about the constriction of the police building in Podgorica.

Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov demanded on Thursday that Sofia City Court Head Vladimira Yaneva be provisionally removed from office.

The announcement was made at the regular sitting of the Higher Judicial Council on the grounds of malfeasance in office.

A few days after pledging to shut down migrant detention centers following a suicide at one such facility in Amygdaleza, northwest of Athens, government officials said on Tuesday that undocumented immigrants would no longer be detained for more than 18 months.

A 39-year-old Romanian truck driver was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday after a Thessaloniki court found him guilty of a road accident that killed six people and injured another 31 on the Egnatia Highway near Veria, in northern Greece.

Alternate Civil Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis said on Monday that the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government is closing the controversial migrant detention center at Amygdalezi in about 100 days. The statement was made following a meeting between mr. Panousis and Alternate Migrant Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou.