Plea bargain

Disregarding the prosecutor's recommendation for acquittal, an Athens mixed jury court on Friday issued a guilty verdict against the defendant Ilias Michos, aged 55, for the rape of a 12-year-old girl, in the trial over her sexual abuse and exploitation in the Kolonos district of Athens.

PRISTINA - A Pristina basic court on Tuesday sentenced two Kosovo-Metohija Serbs to six months in prison for "involvement in a crowd committing criminal offences or hooliganism."

The men, Dusan Obrenovic and Rados Petrovic, were arrested in May last year following protests in Zvecan.

As they have pleaded guilty, their sentences were reverted to 6,000 euro fines.

BELGRADE - The Higher Court in Belgrade has upheld plea agreements signed by seven suspects in the December 24 riots outside the Belgrade City Hall, convicting them for the criminal offences of calling for overthrowing the constitutional order by violent means and/or violent conduct at a sports event or a public gathering.

BELGRADE - Seven people suspected in the December 24 riots outside the Belgrade City Hall have pleaded guilty to the criminal offences of calling for overthrowing the constitutional order by violent means and violent conduct at a sports event or a public gathering, with custody proposed for 11 others to prevent them from repeating the offences.

A top executive at former President Donald Trump's family business pleaded guilty on Aug. 18 to evading taxes on a free apartment and other perks, striking a deal with prosecutors that could make him a star witness against the company at a trial this fall.

Abdul-Jabbar accepted a plea deal from an Orange County judge

A man who attacked five people last year at a Turkish restaurant in the U.S. state of California and made death threats agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges in a hate crime case. 

According to a plea agreement filed Monday in U.S. District Court, William Stepanyan, a Glendale city resident, has agreed to plead to one count of conspiracy and one hate crime charge.

Montenegro has renewed its request to extradite the ex-president of the former State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, Svetozar Marovic, from Serbia. It comes after a BIRN investigation revealed the Marovic family's lucrative business interests in Serbia.

A Jerusalem magistrate court on June 16 sentenced Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to pay a fine of more than $15,000 for misusing state funds. The sentencing comes after she agreed to a plea bargain that ended the years-long saga of just one of the high-profile corruption cases involving the prime minister's family.

Saric was handed down the maximum sentence and remains in custody.

Saric was convicted as the organizer of the group that smuggled 5.7 tons of cocaine from South America to Western Europe during 2008 and 2009. His associates and other members of the group have also been found guilty, with sentences ranging from one to 15 years.

Eight members of this gang remain at large.