A villa seized from a Camorra Mafia boss near Naples will be converted into a shelter for LGBT Italians and migrants fleeing violent discrimination, The Local reported Wednesday.

A worldwide crackdown on illegal wildlife and timber trade has lead to 1,974 seizures of reptiles, birds and other exotic animals and the identification of 1,400 suspects, Interpol said Wednesday.

Serbian journalist Stefan Cvetkovic, who was reported missing on June 13 and was found two days later, said he will request an international investigation into what he claims was his abduction. Police, however, say his claims are false.

Disillusioned by years of corruption and scandal in the country’s league, Croatian football fans are boycotting the World Cup in mass, Balkan Insight reported Tuesday.

A judge sent the brother of a jailed mafia boss behind bars for six years for beating a reporter and his cameraman during a television interview, ANSA reported on Monday.

Italian police arrested 102 suspects on Monday after a 12-year investigation into mafia families that allegedly rule Puglia region on Italy’s southeast coast and are responsible for large-scale drug trafficking from the Balkans.

Amid a wave of opposing anti-corruption and pro-government protests, Romania’s lower house of parliament approved amendments to the country’s criminal procedure that critics argue would make the country more amenable to high-level corruption, Reuters reported Monday.

One of the masterminds behind the 2015 migrant smuggling network along the Western Balkan route and his accomplice were arrested in Athens, the Hellenic Police said on Monday.

Sun Bo, the man in charge of building China’s new aircraft carrier, was detained for corruption charges, according to a brief statement made by the National Supervisory Commission of China on Saturday. The move reflects President Xi Jinping’s pledge to crack down on corruption.

Criminals profited up to US$ 7 billion by smuggling at least 2.5 million migrants throughout the world in 2016, which is as much as the US or the EU spent on humanitarian aid the same year,  a UN study says.