Greek Judiciary

The probe is continuing in the cases of Samaras, Stournaras, Avramopoulos, Georgiadis, and Salmas, and sources say most if not all of those files will be closed by the end of April, due to lack of evidence.

Government leaks over many months about the jailing of suspects, bank accounts abroad, and the bribery of politicians which will blow the political system out of the water all proved to be nonsense.

One saw people burning to death even as the supposedly competent authorities asserted that everything was pretty much under control.

The eight are accused of participating in the coup and working with the network of Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen.

This government has repeatedly violated the spirit of the country’s Basic Law and sometimes even the letter.

The Novartis affair has evolved into a major issue involving an institutional aberration and a departure from democratic normalcy. It emerged as a result of audits of the multi-national Swiss pharmaceuticals company by US authorities, which are sensitive about issues of exceedingly rapid entrepreneurial growth and of competition. Needless to say, Novartis over recent years […]

The judiciary will judge without bending to the threats of the executive power, and it will judge even its own functionaries who may have betrayed their mission.

The earsplitting revelations about the “friend” of a top minister and his ties to the Prime Minister’s office should have already been heard and duly noted by the judiciary.

Why did the PM hasten to express an opinion on a judicial case that is still under investigation? Who were the people who did not shield him from such an embarrassment?

What most who are today are demanding back their lost income forget is that the group that has been hit hardest is private sector employees (especially youths, who receive starvation salaries), and not pensioners and civil servants.

'There is also the case of a government minister who claimed that in order for the ruling party to win the next general election, some people must be put in prison.'

The various institutions linked to the independent judiciary, which has been turned into a tool by ministers and MPs, usually tolerate and remain silent about the provocations to which they are subjected.