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Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office has decided to drop the charges against former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov regarding the use of surveillance practices.

The official accusation stated that Tsvetanov and his underlings had not used the authority to impose monitoring on criminal suspects.

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) announced the start of criminal prosecution proceedings against former Senator and current Constitutional Court judge Toni Grebla for several crimes, influence peddling and receipt of undue benefits included.

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As many as 58 criminal cases were recorded by the name of former President of Romania Traian Basescu at the Penal and Crime Section of the General Prosecutor's Office, four criminal cases were recorded at the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) and six criminal cases at the Directorate for the Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism, says the Prosecutor's Office in an answer to a

Bulgaria's Deputy Justice Minister Petko Petkov has suggested that the country needs to have an efficient prosecuting authority before it can have efficient courts.

In a Tuesday interview for the morning broadcast of bTV, he noted that there were suspicions that the prosecuting authority was keeping a political or economic umbrella over certain people.

Prosecutors seek up to five years of imprisonment for Turkish journalist and anchorwoman Sedef Kaba? for her tweet in which she called on citizens not to forget the name of the judge who dropped the Dec. 17, 2013 corruption probe that involved high-profile names and former Cabinet members.

Turkey has witnessed yet another huge wave of mass purges in the judiciary, with the government replacing almost 1,000 judges and prosecutors, raising more and more question marks over the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) motives in the latest restructuring of the country's top judicial body.

Five public prosecutors involved in the stopping and searching of National Intelligence Organization (M?T) trucks in January 2013 have been removed from their duties by the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), on the grounds of the "safety of investigations and not harming the judiciary's influence or reputation."

Prosecutor talks about "stirring up hornet's nest"

BELGRADE -- Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic has said that his office faces "an orchestrated campaign by war criminals and nationalists."

He told the AP agency that this includes "accusations of spying for the U.S. leveled also by some officials."

President Klaus Iohannis has asked on Thursday the Facebook users whether the Prosecutor General should participate in the meetings of the Supreme Council for National Defence (CSAT), arguing that both corruption and organized crime the prosecutors are dealing with are menaces to the national security.

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President Klaus Iohannis stated that he believes that the Prosecutor-General should be amongst the members of the Supreme Council for National Defence (CSAT), given the perspective of modernizing the institutional infrastructure of the national security laws and of the CSAT law.

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