The former head of the investigative department of the Kyrgyzstan General Prosecutor's office, Kylychbek Arpachiev, was found guilty of extortion and sentenced to 14 years in prison on Tuesday, according to a press release from the national court system.

After seven months in custody, former Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat was sentenced to nine years in prison on corruption charges in a billion-dollar case that shook the nation’s economy. The theft from three banks amounted to about 13 percent of the country’s annual gross domestic product. 

Nearly 7,000 new migrant smuggling suspects were identified between January and June 2016 amid a large wave of migrants trying to reach Europe, Europol announced this week. Ninety-five percent of the suspects are male, with an average age of 36. 

An independent IT monitoring organization revealed that cyber criminals exploited the SWIFT international banking system to steal US$ 10 million from a Ukrainian bank, reported the Kyiv Post Sunday.

Nikita Belykh, governor of the Kirov Region of Russia, was arrested on Friday on charges of accepting bribes after the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation caught him accepting a large sum of money in a Moscow restaurant. 

Ernesto Fazzalari, 46, a mob boss of the infamous Ndrangheta crime syndicate, was arrested as he slept in his hideout in the Calabrian mountains in Southern Italy.

Balkan “Cocaine King” Darko Saric’s 20-year prison sentence for smuggling tons of cocaine from South American countries to Europe has been annulled on May 25 and a retrial was ordered, according to a Friday press release at the Belgrade Appeals Court.

In the midst of increasing illegal migration into Europe, Interpol has stepped up efforts to tackle human smuggling and is calling on people’s help to provide information to capture human smugglers on the run. 

Montenegrin Prosecutor Miodrag Latkovic requested a new trial for failure to hear critical evidence in the case of a family accused of laundering more than €7 million, asking that the family’s December 2015 acquittal be overturned.

A Communist era law that lets convicts in Romania cut down on jail sentences in exchange for publishing scientific works will now be amended, as abuse of the law has spiraled out of control, according to Balkan Insight.