Stavros Kontonis

Estonia’s Justice Minister Urmas Reinsalu has announced that he will reply in writing to his Greek counterpart, Stavros Kontonis, who refused to participate in a conference on crimes committed by Communist regimes held in Tallinn on August 23. According to...

  The Greek government has refused to participate in a conference in Estonia on August 23 titled "The Heritage in 21st Century Europe of the Crimes Committed by Communist Regimes." Greece is the only EU member state that abstains. The decision...

While visiting Zakynthos island, Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis, who is also the local Parliament member, said of the multiple wildfires: "This is planned." The Civil Protection ministry mirrored this view, announcing an "arson destabilization attempt during the August Assumption Day...

The fourth perpetrator of Monday's violent burglary in Palaio Faliro was hiding in the closet for 14 hours and then fled, as police had failed to look for him there. The four burglars had tied up an elderly woman in...

Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis on Tuesday forwarded case files investigating former prime minister Antonis Samaras, as well as Greece's current governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, and the Independent Greeks (ANEL) MP Athanasios Papachristopoulos to Parliament, so...

Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis announced on Friday, that an amount of 4.3 million euros has been deposited in a special account opened at the Bank of Greece for the Greek government, involving armament matters. The corruption investigators had...

Greek Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis along with the US Justice Department are working on an investigation of the alleged corruption of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis. Greek and US investigators aim to determine the extent to which medicines were overpriced, Kontonis said. At...

Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou on Thursday ordered the reopening of the case file of Artemis Sorras after recent incidents caused by his followers. The reappearance of Artemis Sorras and his followers in Greek public life and his new claims...

Under a new draft bill by the Greek Ministry of Justice, an uncontested divorce procedure can take up to half an hour. The bill that will be submitted in parliament shortly, says that if both spouses agree on the divorce...

Corruption prosecutors raided the offices of Swiss drug maker Novartis in Athens a few days ago as part of an ongoing investigation over bribery allegations, sources told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday. According to the same sources, the prosecutors...