Italian police said on Thursday that they seized an estimated US$ 84 million worth of highly pure cocaine tied to buoys floating in the sea. The drugs were suspected to have been thrown overboard from a ship that was later intercepted while sailing into the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro.
Montenegrin journalist Jovo Martinovic pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of working with a drug trafficking ring, in a trial decried by international rights organizations as an attack on the press.
China’s ruling Communist Party voted on Thursday to endorse the expulsion from the party of two senior military officers for corruption, state media reported.
The president of Slovenia’s "bad bank," Bank Asset Management Company (BAMC), resigned on Thursday after weeks of facing calls he step down over an executive pay scandal.
Montenegro’s Prime Minister announced Wednesday plans to step down and hand leadership of the country to a trusted ally, drawing a muted response from critics of a more than two-decade reign marred by corruption and links to organized crime.
Police in Italy launched nationwide raids on Tuesday uncovering what they said was involvement of the country’s 'Ndrangheta criminal organization in Milan’s Expo 2015, a massive event held from May to October last year that has been sullied by a number of cases involving infiltration by organized crime groups.
Italian police arrested seven people on Tuesday after a three-year investigation into a massive child pornography and sex abuse ring operating on the dark web.
An ex-commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and former member of the country’s parliament was indicted Tuesday for allegedly leading an organized crime group that illegally obtained properties worth about €30 million (US$ 32.8 million).
A court in Russia’s capital upheld the detention on Monday of a 54-year-old fortune teller accused of using her knowledge of the supernatural to aid the embezzlement of 26 billion rubles ($US 401.69 million) from the now-defunct NOTA-Bank.
A former Indonesian health minister who courted international controversy by withholding bird flu samples from scientists at the height of a global pandemic scare was arrested Monday for allegedly receiving kickbacks from a company selling crucial medical supplies to deal with the virus.