Greece's Justice Ministry

Greece's Justice Ministry announced on Monday that it has launched the procedure to replace the president and top prosecutor of the Supreme Court who have reached the obligatory retirement age.
According to the Constitution, the maximum age limit for judges is 67 years.

The court's president Vasilios Peppas and prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou will retire in June.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) elected on Monday judge Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos as its new president, making him the first Greek to hold that position.
He succeeds Italy's Guido Raimondi and will take office on May 5, the court said in a press release.

Swiss-French banker Jean-Claude Oswald, who is facing charges of money laundering and bribery in connection to an arms procurement program, went missing on Tuesday after removing his monitoring bracelet, Greece's Justice Ministry said.

Oswald, who appeared in an Athens court earlier in the day where his case was being heard, destroyed the device's strap and disappeared, it said.

A representative from Greece's Justice Ministry on Saturday had to defuse a disturbance at the capital's Korydallos Prison by inmates protesting the transfer of the man suspected of sending the parcel bombs that seriously injured former prime minister Lucas Papademos in May 2016 and wounded an employee of the International Monetary Fund office in Paris in March of that same year.