Criminal law

The real estate agent found guilty in the Zach Kostopoulos death case was sent to prison today by the Court of Appeal. The court decided that he should serve his sentence (six years in prison) in jail while, in contrast, the jeweler (who was given a five-year sentence) was given home detention, as he has reached the age of 80.

The Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Athens has unanimously sentenced a jeweler to five years and a realtor to six years in prison for the fatal beating of 33-year-old gay rights activist Zak Kostopoulos in September 2018 in downtown Athens.

Three men who were put on trial on charges that they locked 13 refugees and migrants in a transport trailer during the disastrous fires in Evros in northeastern Greece last September, and filmed them, accusing them of being arsonists, have been released. The three men had been in custody since last September.

The U.S. State Department has issued an opinion letter to the prosecutor's office regarding the extradition of Eylem Tok, a Turkish writer, and her son, who fled to the U.S. after the latter was involved in a fatal accident in Türkiye.

Sentence of imprisonment of 288 years, with a fine of more than 4 million euros, has been imposed on two young Egyptian men found guilty of trafficking 40 illegal immigrants south of Gavdos in a dinghy.

A 59-year-old Swedish citizen was arrested on Monday morning at Athens Airport on foot of an European arrest warrant issued by the Swedish authorities.

It is understood that the man is accused of serious fraud.

77 Illegal immigrants aboard a sailboat - Transported to Naxos Port

People should be particularly careful avoiding actions in the countryside that can cause a fire by negligence

The criminal lawyer is expected to head to prison after a warrant was issued against him

Prominent criminal lawyer Apostolos Lytras handed himself in to Pallini Police Department on Wednesday after an arrest warrant was issued by judicial authorities. The warrant followed the lifting of previously imposed restraining orders after Lytras' violent assault on his wife, Sofia Polyzogopoulou.