Law

The identity of the perpetrator of the 2012 Burgas bus bombing has been revealed, according to Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov.

Tsatsarov said that he could not disclose more details about the persons related to the terror act at the Sarafovo Airport which killed seven, including five Israeli tourists, the Bulgarian bus driver and the alleged suicide bomber.

BELGRADE - Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH Goran Salihovic and Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic conferred on Friday in Sarajevo on cooperation in the prosecution of war crimes committed in Strpce in 1993, Visegrad, vicinity of Sarajevo, Sjeverin, Srebrenica, as well as on other current topics.

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar, alias ‘Lalco’, suspected of participating in burning dozens of Bosniak civilians alive in Visegrad in 1992, could soon be extradited.

Kosovo’s president said she was willing to cooperate with a proposed new international tribunal to deal with war crimes and alleged organ-trafficking during the late 1990s conflict.

KOPAONIK - Serbia's Outgoing Minister of Justice and Public Administration Nikola Selakovic has said that new authorities will adopt an action plan and measures for strengthening the criminal justice system by autumn.

Opening a conference titled "Criminal Law Reform", Selakovic said at Mt. Kopaonik on Thursday evening that the system comprises prosecutors, judges and police.

Some 876 cases of human trafficking were officially reported in Romania last year, which was down on the figure for 2012 but showed that the problem persists, officials say.

Some 15 years after the war, MPs approved controversial new legislation granting benefits to former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas despite criticism from some opposition lawmakers.

Ukrainians arrested for "planning terror attacks"

MOSCOW -- Russian secret services have detained 25 Ukrainians on suspicion of that they were preparing "subversive acts" in Russian territory, Russia's NTV channel said.

Oktay Enimehmedov, who attacked the honorary lifetime Chairman of DPS Ahmed Dogan in 2013, will seek to enter politics.

The 25-year-old who on January 19 last year pointed a gun at Dogan while he was delivering his resignation speech at a party conference, was firm he had taught the ethnic Turkish party's founder he was "not that intangible".

An Athens prosecutor on Thursday launched an investigation into a video posted on the Internet on Wednesday showing former cabinet secretary Panayiotis Baltakos appearing to accuse Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of trying to influence a judicial probe into the neofascist Golden Dawn.