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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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The Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) on Tuesday will convene in a plenary sitting to elect its new leadership, the two candidates for the President position being judges Alexandru Serban and Marius Tudose, while prosecutor Bogdan Gabor runs for Vice President.

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Turkey's highest judicial board has suspended four prosecutors who were all involved in now-dropped graft investigations last December pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation.

BELGRADE - Members of Serbia's Military Security Agency (VBA) have arrested six persons suspected to have committed the criminal offenses of bribery and trading in influence in resolving status issues at the Serbian Defense Ministry and Serbian Armed Forces (VS).

You already know a parliamentary inquiry committee has been formed to investigate four former Cabinet ministers within the context of the infamous investigation that is now closed; the one history has recorded as the “Dec. 17, 2013 investigation.”

The inquiry commission met Dec. 22, 2014 to reach a decision, but it was postponed to the meeting on Jan. 5, 2015. 

The Turkish Prime Minister will have the final word on whether the Chief of General Staff will be tried by civilian courts for incidents and decisions related to his position, according to a new draft bill sent to Parliament by the government.

Judicial authorities in Thessaloniki are investigating how some 2 million euros in revenues were put to use by the former municipality of Nea Kallikratia on the Halkidiki peninsula.

A group of Serbian MPs filed criminal charges against members of the State Council of Prosecutors for the alleged illegal appointment of deputy war crimes prosecutor Bruno Vekaric.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed nine new members with backgrounds in various fields, mainly from energy, to the Council of State, leading to concerns among environmentalists and chamber of professions that the court may no longer prioritize environmental aspects of energy projects.

A landmark graft probe into senior government figures was officially dropped a day before its first anniversary when the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office rejected an objection to its decision to not pursue proceedings in the case.