Korydallos Prison

Sarah Mardini had notched up exactly three-and-a-half months in jail when she was released from the Greek capital's Korydallos Prison last week.

A Supreme Court prosecutor on Tuesday proposed that an appeal by jailed Greek anarchist and robber Nikos Romanos for leniency due to good behavior be granted while rejecting another for him to be cleared of a terrorism conviction.

A new case file investigating charges against former Socialist defense minister Yiannos Papantoniou of repeated passive bribery was sent to Parliament on Monday afternoon, as part of the probe into alleged kickbacks related to the C4I security system Greece acquired for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

A five-member criminal appeals court ruled on Wednesday to award compensation to Tasos Theofilou, a self-described anarchist who had been wrongfully convicted to 25 years in prison for armed robbery.

Dimitris Koufodinas, the convicted hitman of the November 17 terrorist organization, has been granted furlough of six days from the minimum security prison where he has been held since August, sources have said.

Former Socialist defense minister Yiannos Papantoniou and his wife Stavroula Kourakou were taken to Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison on Wednesday after judicial authorities ordered them to be remanded in custody over charges of money laundering linked to alleged bribes from a state defense contract.

Corruption prosecutors investigating files of convicts who secured an early release using medical certificates have uncovered a criminal racket operating inside prisons which provided forged health documents.

The revelation follows evidence of a second suspicious release of a convict who was serving a life sentence for murder and other crimes.

Nikos Paleocostas, a convicted serial robber and brother of the fugitive Vassilis Paleocostas (known for making two dramatic helicopter escapes from Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison), has made 12 appeals for furlough, it emerged on Friday.

The inmate, who is in prison in Patra, has the right to apply for furlough but all his applications have been rejected.

A convicted November 17 killer has been transferred from the high-security Korydallos Prison in Athens, a week after a fellow member of the group was moved to an agricultural prison.

On Monday, Christodoulos Xiros was transferred to a Halkida prison on the island of Evia.

Washington and Ankara have both slammed a decision by Greek authorities to move convicted November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas from high-security Korydallos Prison in Athens to an agricultural jail in the town of Volos, central Greece.