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The Supreme Court decided Friday that 14 people should stand trial for the notorious property swap between the Vatopedi Monastery and the state six years ago.

Those who will face charges of breach of trust and making false declarations include the monastery’s abbot, Ephraim (photo), a monk, Arsenios, and the wife of former Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis, Katerina Peleki.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday postponed the hearing of an appeal by the Finance Ministry with regard to a First Instance Court instructing the ministry to rehire a group of 393 cleaners placed in a civil service mobility scheme last year. The Supreme Court will convene again over the matter on February 24, 2015.

John Bass, who was nominated in June but had his nomination held up by the Senate until after the August recess, is finally approved

A delegation representing 393 Finance Ministry cleaners who were placed in a civil service mobility scheme last year, were in the second day of a three-day visit to Strasbourg on Tuesday, where they are holding meetings with unionists and members of the European Parliament.

The appeal process in the marathon Ergenekon coup plot case has begun, as the colossal detailed ruling running some 16,600 pages has been sent to the top prosecutor of the country.

The file was sent to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals last week, state-run Anadolu Agency reported late on Aug. 13.

The Finance Ministry is to refer to the Supreme Court its request for the power to raid taxpayer’s homes and business without having a judicial official present.

Founding chairman of the Conservative Party (PC) Dan Voiculescu on Friday showed up at the Supreme Court of Justice, where judges were to consider a request filed by him for a switch in the jurisdiction over the privatisation of the Food Research Institute (ICA) from the Bucharest Court of Appeal to another court.

To the prosecutorial corps, the coming into force of the new codes of law had the same significance as the passage of justice legislation had in the summer of 2004, and the reform that started 10 years ago was consolidated under the new codes, bringing justice in Romania in line with the European standards, Romania's Attorney General Tiberiu Nitu said Sunday.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected Fenerbahçe chairman Aziz Yıldırım’s individual appeal on a “rights violation.” The decision was released in the Official Gazette July 2, making the ruling official.

Laid-off cleaning staff from the Finance Ministry were on Wednesday staging a protest outside the General Accounting Office in Athens.

Cleaners, now in their second month of protest, were demanding a meeting with deputy Finance Minister Christos Staikouras.