The former political leaders and top lawmaker was arrested at the Athens airport this past week on an international arrest warrant issued by his home country, where authorities accuse him of embezzlement reaching one billion USD

Earlier in the week Petros Filippidis’ 2 felony convictions for attempted rape were upheld by an Athens appellate court

The development comes in the wake of revelations regarding an explosive case involving the alleged murder of at least five infants and toddlers, dating back to 2013, by a local woman

The ruling by the court, which considers salary and benefit issues affecting judges and prosecutors, may point to a similar fate for similar legal challenges by public sector unions

The period under scrutiny is between 2017 and 2020, and focuses on subsidies doled out to beneficiaries claiming pastureland that either did not belong to them or was never leased to them

Vassilis Kalogirou's disappearance achieved a greater degree of notoriety because he is the son of a top Larissa prosecutor involved in the Tempi rail collision investigation

First instance decision orders state-run OSE and private Hellenic Train to pay 400,000 euros each to family of passenger train's inspector, who perished in the rail collision

The 28-year-old victim fatally stabbed by her ex-boyfriend turned stalker last April shortly after requesting protection at a NW Athens police precinct – protection that never materialized

A high court deputy chief prosecutor's investigation cites “sufficient indications” to proceed with the indictment and tabling of misdemeanor charges against the four individuals

The tenured UN employee is accused of stealing some one million USD over a seven-year period; charges filed in Athens

The charges stemmed from their testimony before judicial officers alleging that 10 previous officeholders and politicians took kickbacks from Novartis’ subsidiary in Greece

First instance court on Rhodes awards damages to the family of Eleni Topaloudi, who was brutally raped, beaten and thrown into the sea to drown by 2 local men in November 2018

The dismissals took place over the past 3 years for delaying, reports state, the issuance of decisions and verdicts in a timely manner, a long-standing problem plaguing Greece's s legal system

Greece is advancing its judicial system reforms with a voluntary retirement plan for judges and prosecutors, alongside dismissals for those responsible for significant delays in delivering justice.

Asked about the troubling impression caused by the suspension of a sentence imposed against Aris FC after the blackmail and threats lobbed by Theodoros Karpidis, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that the government had no involvement in the matter

The sex trafficking case is named after the inner-city and working-class Athens district Kolonos, where the abuse allegedly occurred and where the victim lived

Authorities focus on urban terrorism links; state services to oversee restoration of blast damaged apartment building after private corporate donation announced

The Council of State has challenged a presidential decree downgrading art school degrees, citing constitutional violations

Both individuals have been named and identified as former high-ranking staff-members of Novartis’ subsidiary in Greece

The Kivotos tou Kosmou founder and director, Fr. Antonios, was convicted of two counts of simple assault, and acquitted of others