A Pakistani court cancelled a multi-million-dollar contract for the implementation of a tobacco track and trace system after two bidders complained that the winner was granted preferential treatment.

Police in Italy have arrested more than 90 members and associates of the Sicily-based Cosa Nostra syndicate, including a former star of the reality TV show Big Brother.

A ruling party MP in Ukraine has tried to illegally obtain a Romanian passport via a company that facilitates ‘gray scheme’ EU citizenship applications, according to Slidstvo, OCCRP’s Ukrainian member centre.

Armenia’s President Armen Sarkissian signed on Monday a law that allows state institutions to seize property suspected to have been acquired illegally.

British authorities have charged two Albanian men with drug trafficking and illegal firearms possession after police seized a gun, cash and three kilograms of cocaine during a search of a flat in northern London last week.

Mexican authorities made a gruesome discovery this weekend when they exhumed the bodies of 25 people from a mass grave near a farmhouse just outside of Guadalajara - against the backdrop of increasing cartel violence across the southwestern state of Jalisco.

Amid growing concern over the impact of the novel coronavirus on the global economy, international agencies are beginning to anticipate how organised criminals across different sectors will be forced to adapt to the post-pandemic reality.

Democracies across the globe are receding into authoritarianism with Central Europe and the Balkans spearheading the process, according to a new report released by Freedom House, a US nonprofit that conducts research on democracy, political freedom, and human rights.

Libyan authorities released on Friday the head of the country’s anti-corruption body after they kept him in detention for three days for alleged graft. His office, however, claims he was abducted because he was auditing the Interior Ministry’s spending during the pandemic.

British border police arrested two Albanian nationals suspected of breaking into the London Container Terminal in Tilbury to retrieve packages of drugs with a street value of more than £1 million (US$1.23 million), the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday.