Theft

Justice Minister Mihalis Kalogirou on Friday announced sweeping changes to the Greek penal and criminal procedure codes that will abolish a contentious law on state embezzlers, seek to reclaim damages from perpetrators, boost the role of prosecutors, introduce community service as a sentence and avoid needless trials.

Turkish mobile gaming and technology company Peak Games has pulled its latest ad over complaints of plagiarism.

A Turkish court has sentenced an Irish man to more than 8 years in prison for a botched theft attempt during which he swallowed an expensive diamond.

A 29-year-old bank employee in the town of Dulovo has been detained for embezzling large amounts of money, said the Silistra Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior.

Police officers in the southern Turkish province of Adana have called in rescue teams to save a theft suspect who was stuck between a car and a wall while he was trying to hide from them. 

A man has been jailed for armed robbery after he admitted to robbing two shops at gunpoint.

A shoplifter has ended up in prison for eight months after stealing a razor blade.

30 year old Evgeniy Petrov from Bulgaria pleaded guilty to stealing the blade from a Qormi supermarket. He also admitted to living a vagrant and idle life and breaching a suspended sentence.

One of the cars found in the possession of an Ankara-based criminal gang was stolen in the Netherlands, police stated on June 21.

The detained leader of a fringe ultranationalist movement called Convention of Greeks, Artemis Sorras, will appear before an examining magistrate on Thursday to respond to a series of felony charges, including setting up, being a member of and running a criminal organization, fraud against the State and banks.

An Athens appeals court has upheld an 11-year sentence against a Sicilian art and antiquities dealer convicted over the theft four decades ago of four rare murals from an Early Christian rural church in Steni on Evia.