Major Albanian political parties are once again in a heated scuffle as the implementation of a decriminalization law – passed with the goal of removing those with criminal convictions from holding public office – has already resulted in the resignation of a ruling party city mayor this week.

Russian authorities said they had detained around 50 people who allegedly used computer programs to steal at least 1.7 billion Russian rubles (US$ 25 million).

Some say that the corrupt in Romania have made an art of bribery. With felonies getting expunged and news being lost, a new online museum now depicts some of the most memorable bribes and guards them for posterity.

Former Kosovo ruling party legislator Azem Syla, whom prosecutors accuse of running an organized crime gang that they say deprived the state and Kosovo Serbs of property worth about 30 million Euros (US$ 34 million), was heard in closed session at a Pristina court on Tuesday, reports Balkan Insight.

Said to have been a key figure in an organized crime group, Sergei Mikhailov has seemingly been working to clean up his image by using a new law to remove information about his past from Russian search engines, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported.

In a nation that has seen about 175 journalists killed since 1986, media groups denounced President-elect Rodrigo Duterte for suggesting that journalists were being killed because they were corrupt.

Police action with the support of Europol saw 16 arrested in Greece and three in the Czech Republic as part of an operation against crime groups that allegedly made and distributed fake documents to illegal migrants looking to enter the EU.

The government of Interim President Michel Temer was rocked again after a minister was forced to resign over a secretly recorded conversation, the Guardian reported.

A mayor who was said to have treated the northwest village of Galiche like a feudal domain was charged by Bulgarian authorities with controlling an organized crime gang, Balkan Insight reported.

Journalist and author Roberto Saviano, known for exposing the economic reality of organized crime in his native Italy, has claimed that the UK is the most corrupt nation on earth.