Justice

Eight of the suspects who had been arrested and held on charges of illegally smuggling gold out of Greece will be released from jail, their lawyers claimed on Tuesday. The lead prosecutor handling the case decided to release the men...

The sixty-three men arrested on charges of illegally smuggling gold out of the country will present their testimony to the examining magistrate beginning on Friday in Athens. The process is expected to continue through to Sunday, with the extremely large number...

A 53-year-old woman was convicted to 15 years of imprisonment for forging an Elementary School diploma in order to get a job in the public sector as a cleaner back in 1996. The sentence was reduced to 10 years after...

Ten individuals were summoned on Monday by a Greek prosecutor who is investigating the Folli Follie scandal. As reported by Greek daily Kathimerini, the suspects were called to testify, and are facing charges of fraud and money laundering. Following the prosecutor's...

Greece's Supreme Court Public Prosecutor, Xeni Dimitriou, ordered the start of a preliminary investigation into press reports about the alleged mismanagement of funds given to Greece by the European Union to cope with the refugee and migration crisis on...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis lashed out at the government which he accused of attempting to undermine the institutions in order to shake up the European construction. In his message on the restoration of Democracy, Mitsotakis stressed...

A criminal appeals court on Thursday acquitted Petros Kapetanopoulos of all charges brought against him by police for his attempt to stop the brutal treatment of a migrant by police officers making an arrest. The incident occurred on the night...

On Thursday a Greek court once again ruled against the extradition of two of the eight Turkish soldiers who fled from Turkey to Greece following the failed coup attempt in July, 2016. Previously the Greek courts have rejected the extradition...

The trial of sixty-four defendants charged with bribery, money laundering and being accessories to offenses related to the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal will restart at the Three-Member Felony Appeals Court in Athens on Friday. The trial had been postponed in July...

A monk and the abbot of a Mt Athos monastery have been found guilty for crimes that will see them serving prison time if they are found, sources have reported. Antypas and Monk Methodios of the Mt. Athos monastery have been sentenced...