Prosecution

The arrest of the director of the Kosovo Energy Corporation, KEK, has drawn completely different reactions from the ruling and opposition parties.

Members of the former deemed it "revenge" by the acting Chief State Prosecutor while the opposition described it as proof of government abuse in the energy sector.

Montenegrin state prosecutor Vukas Radonjic at a conference in Podgorica. Photo: PR Centar

On October 14, 2021, the Basic Prosecution in Podgorica detained the two police officers, Aleksandar Boskovic and Sasa Djurovic, for allowing Belivuk and Miljkovic to enter the country.

A woman who was injured in the deadly train collision at Tempe filed a criminal complaint at the Athens prosecutor's office on Friday, demanding the full investigation of the accident.

Some of the most politically sensitive cases being handled by Albania's special anti-graft prosecution have failed to move beyond the 'preliminary investigation' phase.

The head of the Larissa Appeals Court Prosecutors' office, Stamatis Daskalopoulos, on Monday officially requested that the Larissa Appeals Justices' Council convene in full to decide on the appointment of an appellate-level examining magistrate to investigate the Tempe rail crash, due to the seriousness of the case.

The government has withdrawn a bill aimed at enacting Prime Minister Robert Golob's much criticised promise for judges and prosecutors to receive a monthly bonus of €600 gross.

"There is no political focus in investigating Nexo's work." This was announced by the prosecutor general Ivan Geshev before the meeting of the parliamentary committee on legal issues.

He specified that the investigation was initiated in September and actions are planned for December.

"An investigation is underway against an organized criminal group with global international criminal activity that has affected the interests of citizens of various countries. Transactions made through the NEXO cryptobank over a 5-year period amounted to $94 billion.

North Macedonia's chief state prosecutor, Ljubomir Joveski, has suspended the head of the Organised Crime Prosecution, Vilma Ruskovska, over a suspicion that she has made a "major professional mistake" while recently probing the premises of the Financial Police for alleged crimes.

Film director Paul Haggis was detained on June 19 for investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, Italian news media said, quoting local prosecutors.

The Canadian-born, Oscar-winning Haggis, 69, has been in Italy for a film festival that begins today in Ostuni, a tourist town in Puglia, the region that forms the "heel" of the Italian peninsula.