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Former State Security Court (DGM) prosecutor Nuh Mete Yüksel, who has a controversial record as a prosecutor, has faced strong protests as he bid to vote at the Bar Association election in Ankara.

The Dutch public prosecutor said on Oct. 14 that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurds battling ISIL are not necessarily committing any crime.

Tax inspectors can call at homes and businesses outside normal hours as long as they have a prosecutor’s order and the search is carried out in the presence of a prosecutor, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.

Deputy Supreme Court prosecutor Nikos Pantelis said that it was illegal for these inspections to be carried out without a prosecutor.

BELGRADE - The Higher Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade has taken over the conduct of criminal proceedings related to an incident in which members of the Serbian Gendarmerie beat Andrej Vucic, brother to the Serbian prime minister, Predrag Mali, brother to the mayor of Belgrade, and two members of Cobras, a military police special operation battalion.

President Traian Basescu has stated on Monday evening that Prime Minister Victor Ponta was a covert officer of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) between 1997 - 2001, which explains his 'ascension' in the General Prosecutor's Office.

Romania's Prosecutor General Tiberiu Nitu on Thursday said that the announcement of the Lukoil representatives on closing down the Petrotel Ploiesti refinery unless the lien on the company's goods is lifted, was meant to put pressure on the prosecutors of the Prosecutor's Office near the Court of Appeal of Ploiesti.

The disciplinary processes of all but two of the 18 policemen who were detained last year on suspicion of ties to Golden Dawn have still not been completed, Kathimerini understands.

Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani ordered on Friday an investigation into comments made this week by Greece’s chief inspector for public administration in which he alleged that some high profile personalities enjoyed impunity.

There was a banquet organized Wednesday evening in a district of Istanbul in connection with the elections to be held for the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK).

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has veiled incentives for judicial officers in the run up to a key election at Turkey’s top judicial body, prompting the main opposition party’s leader to label the incentives as a “political bribe.”