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Slovak FM: Balkan criminals bought passports

BRATISLAVA -- Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak has said that "someone in Slovakia took money to help drug dealer Dragoslav Kosmajac obtain the country’s citizenship."

"Voting in Kosovo will be possible with Serbian IDs"

PRIŠTINA -- Member of the Kosovo Election Commission Nenad Rikalo says this body decided to allow the use of all valid documents for the voting on Sunday.

It means the voters will be able to use Serbian identification documents if they are on the electoral roll in order to cast their vote, he said.

A civil engineer believed to be behind a major property scam was arrested in Holargos, northeastern Athens, on Tuesday.

The 57-year-old, allegedly working with an appeals court judge, a first instance prosecutor, lawyers, tax officials, police officers and others, set up a series of bogus companies that would buy properties at rigged auctions.

More than 18,000 polling stations nationwide have opened today in Romania at 07:00hrs, EEST, for the European elections.

As many as 18,226,995 voters are expected at the ballot box, with the vote process to end at 21:00hrs, EEST.

Anyone buying a prepay card in Romania in future will have to submit their personal data, their name and ID number respectively, according to a bill adopted on Thursday by the Romanian government.

The aim is to allow Romania's intelligence services to identify prepay card holders, if a judge decides it is necessary.