A Serbian court has approved an indictment against Dragoslav Kosmajac – a man described by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as “the biggest drug dealer in Serbia” – over a 2010 abuse of authority case that allegedly caused €95,000 (US$ 108,000) in state losses.

Israeli police arrested six people on Monday for allegedly trafficking speech and hearing impaired people from Eastern Europe and forcing them to beg on the streets.

United States television personality Larry King was reportedly paid US$ 225,000 from the "black ledger" of Ukraine’s former pro-Russian governing party, the latest turn in a scandal that helped lead to the resignation last week of the campaign chairman of US presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.

British authorities intercepted a fishing trawler off the southwest coast of England on Thursday, finding more than a tonne of cocaine and arresting three men, the country’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

Bulgaria's economy minister has defended the country’s arms exports to the Middle East, following an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) that revealed Central and Eastern European countries had approved at least €1.2 billion (US$ 1.36 billion) in arms sales to the region.

A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg sentenced a reputed leader of the notorious Tambovskaya criminal group to 23 years in prison on Thursday for the attempted assassination of a businessman.

Spanish police said Wednesday they had dismantled an Albanian-Bulgarian network smuggling heroin and other drugs from the Balkans and Turkey to the cities of Barcelona and Tarragona, arresting seven members of the group.

The chief of Bulgaria’s border police and his deputy have resigned after reports that the police had granted a contract for transporting migrants to a company linked to a suspected people smuggler.

The parliamentary chief of Kosovo’s ruling party resigned on Tuesday after leaked wiretaps revealed accusations of abuse of power at the top of the country’s politics and triggered weeks-long protests.

The wife of one of Russia’s most powerful men, Igor Sechin, has filed a lawsuit against Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) partner Novaya Gazeta demanding the newspaper take down an article linking her to a luxury super-yacht.