The fallout from the has led the Spanish establishment to cast a cold, hard eye on its sizeable Eastern European immigrant community, reports RFE/RL. Immigrants make up 12 percent of Spain’s population, with one-third of those immigrants originating from Eastern Europe, the media outlet reports. The non-criminal Eastern European elements in Spain are just because they are from the same region:

By Beth Kampschror

Greek police let suspected Georgian mob boss Lasha Sushanashvili slip away during the recent Europe-wide raids on a Georgian crime group, Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutor :

Greek police were informed on Monday morning that he was at a luxury hotel in Salonika, Greece's second-largest city, "but the police tasked with arresting him did not find him," a Greek police source said.

By Beth Kampschror

Bulgaria’s organized-crime crackdown continued last week, with the authorities branching out from the kidnappers and drug traffickers-cum-extortionists they’ve previously targeted . A total of 13 suspects were arrested. Police also found weapons and falsified car papers during searches of various properties.

By Beth Kampschror

International arms dealer Viktor Bout, who’s been in a Thai jail since a US-led sting operation two years ago, faced a new indictment last week – for after the US banned him from doing business in the country six years ago. The indictment also charged Bout associate Richard Chichakli, an American citizen who’s lived in Moscow since the US Treasury Department seized his assets in 2005.

By Beth Kampschror

Police and last week, aiming to shut down an organized crime group suspected of racketeering, prostitution, drug trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion and siphoning money from a now-defunct steelmaker. The group’s wide-ranging activities show how Bulgarian organized crime has evolved over the past decade, Bulgaria’s interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov .

By Beth Kampschror