Estonia manages to control corruption better than any other emerging country in Europe, according to new research from the World Bank.

The Dutch government is looking to hire 445 more officers for a specialized narcotics unit, as the fallout continues from the assassination of a criminal defense lawyer.

BBC’s Africa Eye released on Monday a short documentary, showing two professors at major West African universities sexually propositioning reporters who were posing as students. 

Romanian Border Police stated they seized on Sunday bags with 750 kilograms of cannabis with an estimated value of EUR9 millions (US$9.87 million) on the black market.

The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 15 individuals who had lured and sexually exploited children via the Internet, the Office announced Wednesday on its Facebook page.

Montenegro has on Thursday officially launched the application process for its Citizens by Investment Program, otherwise known as the Golden Visa scheme, which offers rich foreigners and their families citizenship in return for investments worth hundreds of thousands of euros.

The Vatican has appointed one of Italy’s top anti-mafia prosecutors to head its criminal tribunal, just days after raids were carried out in the Holy See over alleged financial wrongdoing.

The retirement of outdated Kenyan banknotes has revealed tens of millions of dollars that had likely been earned via criminal activity, the Central Bank of Kenya announced on Wednesday.

European Union finance ministers will be considering at a meeting next week whether they should set up a supervisor who would be responsible for money laundering cases, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Four cartels are battling it out for the lucrative US$1.5 billion dollar avocado trade in western Mexico, the office of a state attorney general has revealed.