Criminal procedure

The case file of an ongoing investigation into the acquisition of a C4I security system and surveillance system by Greece for the Olympic Games in 2004 will be sent to parliament in the coming days, as the name of a former minister has come up during the probe, according to information.

An Athens prosecutor on Thursday brought criminal charges of breach of faith against the former chief executive of the Public Gas Corporation (DEPA), for not collecting debts owed by Hellenic Fertilizers.

According to the indictment, Theodoros Kitsakos failed to take appropriate action to recover ELFE's debts.

Former Socialist defense minister Yiannos Papantoniou and his wife Stavroula Kourakou were taken to Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison on Wednesday after judicial authorities ordered them to be remanded in custody over charges of money laundering linked to alleged bribes from a state defense contract.

The specialised criminal court sentenced the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs 2 Hristo Angelichin to 2 years on bail with 4 years of probation for malfeasance in office.

He was also charged with a fine of BGN 5,000.

The Bosnian state court said that media reporting on criminal proceedings should be legally regulated because of what it described as unprofessional, unjust and prejudiced coverage, particularly of war crimes cases.

Sofia. Marinela and Vetko Arabadzhiev will return to Bulgaria voluntarily in a matter of days, their lawyer Ilian Vasilev told the Special Criminal Court of Appeal, the Bulgarian National Radio reported.

An Ankara court on Sept.1 remanded in custody three suspects over the U.S. Embassy drive-by shooting on Aug. 20 in the capital Ankara, a judicial source said.      

Macedonia's ex-Prime Minister and former ruling VMRO DPMNE party leader Nikola Gruevski is involved in a legal race against time that will determine whether he will serve his two-year jail sentence which was handed down in a first-instance verdict in May, or not have to serve any jail time because the statute of limitations has passed.

A once-influential businessman who fell from grace after he was accused of embezzlement in the case of failed Proton Bank, Lavrentis Lavrentiadis faces fresh criminal charges after an Athens prosecutor accused him of committing fraud to the detriment of the state.

Three men accused of the murder of a student during a mugging on Athens' Philopappou Hill on August 15 have been jailed on remand after appearing before investigating magistrates.