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Four suspects have been arrested in Drama, northern Greece, in connection with multiple fires in parkland and rubbish skips.

Authorities said the four are connected to 68 arson attacks between June 2012 and October 2013.

The suspects have also been charged with setting up and participating in a criminal organization.

The public prosecutor recommended on Wednesday that businessman Makis Psomiadis should be sentenced to jail along with four other people for embezzling 21 million euros from AEK when he was in charge of the soccer club.

Psomiadis denies the charges.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - By the decision of the Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court, lawyers Dejan A. Vasic and Faruk Korenica were released from custody on Wednesday, EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic told Tanjug.

BELGRADE – Jasna Matic, former Serbian telecommunications minister and former director of the Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA), along with three former executives of the agency, is being questioned at the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic told Tanjug.

Ex-minister: More wrongdoings at agency

BELGRADE -- Saša Radulović claims that the financial abuses that led to the arrest of former heads of SIEPA are "only some of the omissions in the work of the agency."

Fatmir Limaj has denied involvement in corruption and organized crime, maintaining that the latest indictment raised against him was based on prejudice and speculation.

“If this indictment was a screenplay, a good movie could be made, based on it”, Limaj told the court on Wednesday.

Female activists gathered in Belgrade to pay tribute to victims of the Serbian military campaign in Kosovo in 1999 and demand that the authorities prosecute the guilty.

The Hague Tribunal rejected a prosecution request to reopen its case and call 14 more witnesses to deny claims made by former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic.

Bosnian police arrested Milenko Trifunovic, who is currently awaiting his sentence for genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, on suspicion of illicit trafficking in arms and other military equipment.

BELGRADE - The Interior Ministry (MUP) Criminal Police Department arrested on Tuesday, in cooperation with the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office, former heads of the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA) - Jasna Matic, Bozidar Laganin, Vesna Peric and Bojan Jankovic who are suspected of abusing power and causing a loss of around EUR 1 million to the state budget, the Interior