Prosecution

Police from Romania's Economic Crime Directorate and prosecutors carried out searches at Romanian Public Radio headquarters on Thursday.

The investigation was directed at several member of the administrative board of the state-owned broadcaster, suspected of abuse of office as well as conflicts of interest.

Bulgaria's "most famous" migrant hunter, Dinko Valev, is being investigated over alleged incitement of discrimination, violence and hatred along ethnic lines, the prosecution says.

Gospodin Valev, known by his first name's shorter form Dinko, rose to notoriety by becoming the most prominent vigilante hunter performing citizen's arrests of migrants in southern Bulgaria.

The General Prosecutor's Office confirmed to BIRN that it has launched an investigation into Shkelqim Ganaj, chairman of Albania's High Inspectorate of Declaration and Audit of Assets and Conflict of Interest, on suspicion of abuse of power.

Prosecutors ruled that there is no evidence that former EU rule-of-law mission Francesco Florit demanded or took a bribe to acquit defendants in triple murder and bombing cases in Kosovo.

Prosecutors in the western province of Denizli have prepared an indictment against 60 suspects with alleged links to July 15 coup attempt due to their use of ByLock, an app that is suspected to be widely used for internal communication among Gülenists, who are believed to have masterminded the putsch. 

Macedonia's Helsinki Committee for Human Rights has condemned fresh attacks on the work of the Special Prosecution office, SJO, calling it absurd for the same judicial institutions that have been pinpointed for years in international reports as problematic to target the work of the SJO.

Disciplinary proceedings were launched against state prosecutor Miroslav Janjic because he failed to include five people’s deaths in a war crimes indictment, not because he indicted a Bosniak commander, prosecutors insisted.

Turkish police searched the Cassation Court and other courts with warrants for the arrest of 189 judges and prosecutors, reported Turkish media.

Ankara's Chief Prosecutor has ordered the arrest of several members of the judicial bodies and the Ministry of Justice, including members of the Appellate Court and the State Council (Supreme Administrative Court).

The Constitutional Court has ruled for a local public chief prosecutor's office to re-investigate a sexual abuse charge in a case involving a woman who had a religious wedding while 16 years old, after the office dropped the probe claiming lack of evidence. 

Sofia City Court is expected to launch the trial against Bulgarian lawmaker Aleksandar Metodiev.

Metodiev, who represents the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) in Parliament, is facing the court after allegedly ignoring a police stop baton waved at him over a traffic violation and later trying to intervene as officers were writing a ticket to another person.