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The former Postbank manager Angelos Filippidis will face the examiner today in order to state his plea regarding a number of loans the bank granted during his tenure. Mr. Filippidis, who faces charges of fraud and assisting in money laundry, will be quizzed about his involvement with the bank between October 2007 and December 2009. […]

The Felony Appeal Court sentenced Tasos Theofilou to 25 years imprisonment for participating in a bank robbery, being an accomplice in manslaughter, forgery, carrying weapons and accepting stolen goods. The courts did not accept any mitigating circumstances, but dropped the terrorism charges of participating in the Conspiracy of Fire Cells group against the 30-year-old anarchist. […]

The courts in Athens rejected Fund Energy’s request for an injunction against the international contest for the privatization of the DEPA/DESFA group, which began on the 29th of February 2012. In the trial, TAIPED argued that all decisions are made with the interests of the Greek state in mind, in compliance with domestic and EU […]

The police arrested 11 protesters on Saturday who participated in an anti-fascist demonstration in down town Athens. Amongst the 11 protesters are one minor (facing a felony charge) and a Turkish political refugee who was injured in clashes with the police. The 11 arrested protesters will be taken to state their plea before the courts […]

A bomb went off in the courthouse of Corinth earlier this morning at about 7.13am. The police reported that the explosive device as probably located outside the second examiner’s office. The explosion took place around the time the first courthouse employee was entering the building, so no injuries were reported. The explosion caused a fire […]

The courts decided to release Kostas Sakkas on bail, after he was recently re-arrested when fingerprints of his were finally identified five years after being found in hideouts used by the Conspiracy of Fire Cells (SPF) militant group. Sakkas, who was on hunger strike last year, repeated his claim that he has never been a […]