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Greek President Prolopis Pavlopoulos returned unsigned the two presidential decrees on the appointment by the previous SYRIZA government of the new prosecutor and president of the Supreme Court.

Since the decrees were not signed by the president, they are considered null and void and therefore are not binding for the government of New Democracy.

The allegations by a deputy Supreme Court prosecutor that a government official influenced an investigation into an alleged bribery scandal involving the Swiss drugs manufacturer Novartis will be investigated by the next Parliament, conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Thursday.

The government's bid for consensus with opposition conservatives over its intention to replace the Supreme Court's president and prosecutor before a snap election on July 7 fell by the wayside on Thursday after its proposal was turned down by New Democracy. 

As the Supreme Court convenes on Tuesday to discuss a furlough request by convicted terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, groups of hooded individuals in Athens on Monday smashed ATMs, vandalized political offices and caused chaos at three university campuses in "solidarity" with the hunger-striking terrorist. 

The Supreme Court will on Tuesday discuss the furlough request of convicted terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas after Greece's top prosecutor Xeni Dimtiriou ordered a review late Friday of the decision not to grant him leave.

The beleaguered former head of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), Andreas Georgiou, was Thursday cleared for a third time by the Council of Appeals of falsifying the 2009 budget data in order to justify Greece's first international bailout.

A senior prosecutor on Thursday called for a probe into media reports claiming that the former director of one of the Greek capital's biggest hospitals had submitted fake academic certificates to get the job.

As Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou reviews the case of a 53-year-old woman who was given a 10-year prison term for falsifying a school certificate to get a cleaning job in a state kindergarten, a Larissa court is to hear her appeal for release pending the review.

One of the medical certificates detailing the health problems that led to the release from prison of a power company executive is vague, ambiguous and not supported by evidence, a Supreme Court prosecutor said in an appeal Friday.

Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou ordered on Tuesday the transfer of two children who were reportedly sexually and physically abused by their parents on the island of Leros to a specialized institution, where they can receive proper care.