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A majority of top jurists in the country on Thursday renewed the term of the head of the anti-corruption prosecutor's office, by a vote of eight to three, with those voting in favor including the president of the Supreme Court and the high court's top prosecutor.

The matter of Greek Alternate Minister Pavlos Polakis’s €100,000-loan from state-owned Attica Bank, an exclusive story broken by Proto Thema, has led to the Athens Chief Public Prosecutor, Evangelos Ioannidis ordering a preliminary investigation into allegations that Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Pokalis had recorded a phone conversation with the Governor of the Central Bank of Greece, Yiannis Stournaras without the latter’s consent.

Three journalists working for the 'Fileleftheros' newspaper, who had been taken into custody based on a libel suit filed against them by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, were on Sunday released at the orders of a public prosecutor.