A joint investigation by Serbian and German law enforcement has led to the arrest of 30 people, including the head of a Belgrade football fan club,on suspicion of producing and trafficking tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs, Serbia's interior minister said Tuesday.

Kosovo has granted the rights to search for coal over one-third of its territory to a company linked to retired US General Wesley Clark, an investigation by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) partner the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has found.

Spanish police said Monday they arrested a senior member of the 18th Street gang, a major criminal organization in Central and North America, as part of an effort to stop an apparent push by the criminal organization into Europe.

Police in Russia arrested a senior anti-corruption official on Saturday after he was found in possession of over US$ 120 million in suspected bribe money, Russian media reported.

Transparency International (TI) released its first corruption assessment on Albania Thursday, and the news is not good: Albania is home to some of the worst corruption in Europe.

Romanian authorities arrested the police chief of the southeastern town of Mizil and three alleged members of a prostitution ring whose operations the chief allegedly protected. The group is accused of coercing minors into prostitution.

The Almaty City Court on Thursday detained the head of a Silk Road free-trade zone between China and Kazakhstan for two months on suspicion of accepting a US$ 1 million bribe.

Armenia has deported 78 Taiwanese citizens accused of a US$ 1.1 million scam to mainland China, where they are likely to face prosecution, Chinese authorities said Wednesday. The move has drawn criticism from Taiwan.

A Russian court issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for the former Russia head of telecommunications firm VimpelCom in connection with a 800 million ruble (US$ 12.5 million) bribery case in the country’s north.

Italian police arrested 21 people in the country’s north on Tuesday for allegedly smuggling hundreds of migrants from the Middle East into the European Union.