Korydallos Prison

Prominent criminal lawyers Alexandros Lykourezos and Theodoros Panagopoulos who were arrested last Friday over their alleged involvement in the so-called Korydallos prison "mafia," were released on bail on Monday evening, after their marathon statements to a prosecutor and an investigative magistrate.

A prosecutor and an investigative magistrate are to decide on Monday night whether to remand or conditionally release prominent Athens lawyer Alexandros Lykourezos and fellow attorney and close associate Theodoros Panagopoulos, who were arrested last Friday over their alleged involvement in the so-called so-called Korydallos prison "mafia."

The prominent Athens lawyer Alexandros Lykourezos was testifying before an investigating magistrate on Monday in relation to the Korydallos prison "mafia" that he is supposedly implicated in.

The 85-year-old lawyer was transferred to the Athens appeals court complex under police guard from the Athens police headquarters where he was in custody over the weekend.

The prominent Athens lawyers Alexandros Lykourezos and Theodoros Panagopoulos, who are accused of links to the Korydallos Prison "mafia," are to face an investigating magistrate on Monday.

Alexandros Lykourezos and Theodoros Panagopoulos, two prominent Athens lawyers allegedly embroiled in the so-called Korydallos Prison "mafia," were on Friday given an extension to prepare their defense before an investigating magistrate.

Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou on Friday ordered judicial probes into the killing of an inmate at Trikala Prison in central Greece yesterday and into the whipping of two inmates at Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison on Thursday.

The fugitive convict Vassilis Palaiokostas was sentenced in absentia to 58 years on Friday by a three-judge criminal appeals court in Thessaloniki after he was found guilty of the abduction of businessman Giorgos Milonas in June 2008 and for three armed robberies in the Greek city.

A 65-year-old man became the second lawyer to be remanded in custody over his alleged involvement in a guns-for-hire gand working out of the Greek capital's Korydallos Prison.

An internal probe was launched on Wednesday at Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison following the death of a 48-year-old inmate in his cell.

The Greek prisoner, who was serving a life sentence for murder, is believed to have died of a heart attack, according to prison medics, though a coroner was to rule on the exact cause of death.

The wife of a former defense minister accused of corruption and money laundering was released from pretrial custody Friday on bail of 150,000 euros. She was also banned from leaving the country.