Extradition

A French national supposely linked to jihadist groups has been detained on the Bulgarian-Serbian border, media report.

Greece has rejected asylum requests from three of a group of eight Turkish soldiers who fled there after the failed coup attempt in Turkey in July, police sources said on Wednesday.

Turkey has formally sought the men's extradition, calling them "traitors" and "terrorist elements".

The soldiers deny involvement in the coup.

Tsvetan Vasilev, the majority owner of insolvent Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank KTB), is to appear before the Belgrade High Court on Wednesday.

Vasilev is facing an extradition request from Bulgaria, which has been seeking to indict him with charges of embezzling BGN 206 M from his own bank.

The Belgrade High Court grilled the Bulgarian businessman Tsvetan Vasilev, whose extradition from Serbia is sought by the Bulgarian authorities, for over an hour on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court of Serbia is to interrogate Tsvetan Vasilev, the majority shareholder at insolvent Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank or KTB), in relation to an extradition request from Bulgaria.

Vasilev left Bulgaria in the summer of 2014, in the days around the collapse of KTB which was placed under special supervision by central bank BNB following a bank run on June 20, 2014.

Serbia's legal representative has informed the Hague Tribunal that the country had launched a procedure for the extradition of three SRS party members.

They are Vjerica Radeta, Petar Jojic and Jovo Ostojic.

War crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj burned the EU and NATO flags in front of Belgrade’s Special Court in protest after a hearing about his extradition to The Hague was postponed.

A Palestinian delegation is visiting Bulgaria to investigate the death of Omar Zayed - whose extradition was sought by Israel - and whose relatives say he had been receiving death threats.

Ukraine plans to seek the extradition of Bulgarian national Georgi Bliznakov from Bulgaria over suspected participation in a battalion of pro-Russian rebels fighting government forces in Donbas region, Sofia-based bTV broadcaster reported on Monday.

Germany will make it easier to deport criminal foreigners following public outrage over the New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne, officials said on Jan. 12.

"With this proposal we are significantly lowering the hurdles for the possible expulsion of foreigners who have committed crimes in Germany," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin.