Ex-defense minister Yiannos Papantoniou, who had been accused of taking kickbacks for the 2003 contract to secure the purchase of six Hellenic Navy frigates, was summoned on Monday to provide further testimony.
JUSTICE
The Justice Ministry has allowed the seizure of assets at the Venezuelan embassy in Athens to compensate sexual harassment victims of the former ambassador.
The head of the Athens Prosecutor’s Office has ordered an investigation into allegations of physical and verbal abuse, as well sexual harassment made by 22 former athletes of rhythmic gymnastics against an unspecified number of coaches.
![Riot police officers stand outside a courthouse during the trial of 497 defendants, in Sincan, outside the capital Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday. [AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/turkey_coup_AP-320x200.jpg)
A Turkish court sentenced dozens of people, including former soldiers attached to the presidential guard regiment, to life imprisonment on Wednesday over their involvement in the 2016 failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
The investigation into the Novartis bribery case can now continue after the prosecutor in charge recovered from the coronavirus.
Hellenic Police (ELAS) Chief Michalis Karamalakis has ordered the Internal Affairs service of Northern Greece to investigate accusations that police officers in Larissa used excessive force when stopping a group of teenagers, specifically breaking the arm of a thirteen-year-old boy.
The Athens trial over the trafficking of 27 Tibetan migrants, who were found in a Kypseli apartment in November 2019, ended on Wednesday with the two main defendants, nationals of Tibet and Malaysia, receiving 12.5-year prison sentences.
![Greek actor and former director of Greece's National Theatre Dimitris Lignadis enters a car as he leaves prosecutor's office escorted by plain clothes police officers in Athens, Greece, February 21, 2021. [Costas Baltas/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Lignadis_arrest_reuters-320x200.jpg)
An additional indictment has been announced against jailed former National Theater director Dimitris Lignadis after a third rape lawsuit was filed against him.
After a stormy debate, a parliamentary plenary session Tuesday voted in favor of a proposal by 30 ruling New Democracy lawmakers for the creation of a special committee to investigate allegations of foul play by Nikos Pappas during the contentious auction for TV licenses in 2016 when he was digital policy minister in the SYRIZA government.
A Greek pawnbroker who was accused of smuggling large quantities of gold to Turkey in 2018, was cleared of all charges according to a report by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA), citing his lawyer.
For the past 10 years, the case of the former head of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), Andreas Georgiou, has been testing the Greek judicial system.
The former head of the country’s fire service, Vassilis Mattheopoulos, testified before an investigative magistrate in Athens on Wednesday about the events that unfolded during the devastating fire that engulfed the seaside resort of Mati in eastern Attica in July 2018 and killed 102 people.
A senior officer of the police’s rapid response DIAS squad in charge of an operation which led to a violent incident in the Athens suburb of Nea Smyrni on March 7 has been relieved of his duties.
The police officer who was attacked by a group of people during protests in Nea Smyrni on March 9 gave a deposition describing the events of that night to a prosecutor on Tuesday.
The American Statistical Association Board (ASA) issued a new press release condemning a Greek appeals court decision last month finding former Greek chief statistician Andreas Georgiou liable for slander.
![A frame grab from video provided by Voice of America shows members of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail reacting violently to a peaceful protest during the Turkish president’s trip to Washington in May 2017. [Voice of America/AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/turkish_security_washington_ap-320x200.jpg)
In a brief submitted by the US Department of Justice in ongoing litigation, the Biden administration asserts that the Republic of Turkey is not immune from suit for the attacks perpetrated by Erdogan’s security detail against peaceful protesters in Washington, DC.
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