Diplomatic Parking an Indicator of more than Laziness

All diplomats take advantage of their immunity, especially when it comes to do-no-harm offenses like illegal parking, right?  Wrong.  Economists and analyzed the cultural underpinnings of diplomatic parking tickets and determined that there is a correlation between a government’s tolerance of corruption and its U.N. emissaries’ willingness to park illegally in New York City.  Forbes columnist , alongside .

Serbian and French police from Serbia to France. The weapons had been smuggled from the Balkans to France.

French security services and their Serbian counterpart, the Security-Information Agency (BIA), worked together to break up the ring, an official told B92.

By Beth Kampschror

In a landmark action that’s taken the better part of the summer to accomplish, to face time for his role in the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. Croatia’s extradition of Sretko Kalinic is the first such extradition since the wars of the 1990s, and the first under an agreement the two countries signed in June that covers organized crime and corruption suspects.

By Beth Kampschror

Better late than never: , where he’s wanted on charges of selling weapons to a foreign terrorist organization, money laundering and sanctions busting.

By Beth Kampschror

A Croatian member of a once-powerful mob group based in neighboring Serbia may soon be the first Croatian citizen to be extradited , last week. Sretko Kalinic, who faces decades in prison has . Serbian radio-television B92 :

Kalinić, sentenced in absentia to a total of 70 years in prison, was a fugitive for seven years and was hiding in Croatia when another Zemun Clan crime group member, Miloš Simović, shot and wounded him.

By Beth Kampschror