31.   Italy requested help on an investigation into the murders earlier this year, said Jost Tilmann, spokesman for the Frankfurt prosecutors office.

32.   Krakow prosecutors were not immediately available to confirm the report and the prosecutors office was closed Friday afternoon.

33.   Meanwhile, the prosecutors office was expanding its investigation to determine whether other officials were involved.

34.   National broadcaster NHK showed footage of Hamanaka, dressed in a suit and tie, being driven from the prosecutors office to the Tokyo Detention Center.

35.   Other officials in the prosecutors office said they could neither confirm nor deny the reports on the indictment requests.

36.   Other officials indicated they reflected the high rate of defections from many prosecutor offices in southern Italy, where resources are scarcer and the workload greater.

37.   Prosecutors are investigating Foreign Minister Delmer Urbizo Panting in relation with a massive immigration scandal that also involved U.S. officials, the prosecutors office said Tuesday.

38.   Several armed men were involved in the holdup of a branch of the Rabobank in Amstelveen Monday morning, said Marianne Bloos, spokeswoman of the Amsterdam prosecutors office.

39.   Sumitomo and the prosecutors office both said they would hold news conferences later Tuesday to discuss Hamanaka.

40.   The Athens prosecutors office said Papagelopoulos conducted a preliminary investigation and took statements from more than a dozen people, including Kammenos, before bringing the charges.