Criminal record

New information has come to light about the 71-year-old man who admitted to the fatal shooting of his ex-partner in her home on the island of Salamina earlier this week.

According to police sources, the man was reported for domestic violence in 2013 by his then partner.

The European Commission has announced that it is preparing criminal proceedings against Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, and Portugal for incorrect application of the rules on the exchange of data on criminal record certificates and the establishment of the relevant European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS).

Data for 2020 show a down trend in all types of criminal activity. Among them, theft and fraud incidents have decreased the most. There is the same level in domestic violence as compared with 2019. This was stated by Interior Minister Hristo Terziiski.

Instead, doctors' license will be revoked only for the the duration of their criminal records.

Greek police recorded 122 traffic code violations in 511 school buses during checks ahead of the start of the new school year, according to a press release on Tuesday.

Police were closing in on Monday night on the real culprits behind brutal murder of prominent criminal lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos in his office in central Athens earlier this month.

The Swedish Ralph Sungberg was foundy guilty by the Regional Court in Nessebar for kicking a maid in a hotel in Bulgaria's seaside resort Sunny Beach. However, Sungberg is exempt from criminal liability and has been fined BGN 4,500. He will also pay the costs of the case, which are about 600 BGN.

A total of eight people involved in an exchange of fire in the garden of a primary school in Istanbul were detained on Sept. 6.

Detention warrants were also issued for four other suspects in connection to the incident, which occurred in Istanbul's Ümraniye district. 

Albania's Central Electoral Commission, CEC, voted on Thursday to dismiss from office two MPs and a mayor who had hid their criminal convictions after submitting forms about their past.

Two Albanian MPs, one from the ruling bloc and one from the opposition, have disputed the the Prosecutor General's claim that they must be dismissed from office for hiding past criminal records.