The outgoing Europol director, Rob Wainwright, says that Europe’s work to curb money laundering is insufficient as illegal cash moves too easily through its banking system.

The mastermind of a cybercrime syndicate responsible for bank heists totaling over US$1 billion was arrested in Spain, Europol announced last week.

Spanish police arrested seven members of an Iraqi-Albanian gang allegedly having smuggled refugees and migrants from Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria to the United Kingdom, Europol reported last week.

As another school year begins in Afghanistan, the country continues to face insecurity, an epidemic of corruption within its education system and old customs that keep many students and qualified teachers away from classrooms.

A car bomb exploded on Sunday outside the home of a journalist who was investigating organized crime groups in Montenegro, Balkan Insight reported.

Russian billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov was arrested Saturday for embezzling US$44million, Radio Free Europe reports.

A court in China has sentenced the former mayor of a city to death for taking more than US$ 160 million in bribes in return for helping businesses obtain licences for coal mine mergers and other projects, South China Morning Post reported Thursday.

Poland last year passed amendments to its judiciary that fail to comply with anti-corruption standards and allow politics to influence the justice system, the Council of Europe reported on Thursday.

British authorities on Thursday began new investigations into money-laundering, sanctions and economic crime, focusing particular attention on properties purchased from those with Russian connections.

Kosovo faces another obstacle toward visa liberalization through its track-record against corruption and organized crime, reports Prishtina Insight. The European Union demands the country make inroads in it’s fight against corruption in order to have its citizens freely travel through the Schengen zone.