Azerbaijani investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova won the 2016 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize today from behind bars in a Baku prison. The award marks World Press Freedom Day and will be received at an awards ceremony by her mother, Elmira, today in Helsinki, Finland.
A decorated US military officer was sentenced on Friday to 78 months in prison for passing along classified information in a bribery case that has shaken the Navy, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
Vitas Vasiliauskas, the head of the Bank of Lithuania, has been linked in the Panama Papers to offshore entities, a connection dating from his previous career as a lawyer.
Authorities arrested five men who were charged with trying to sell uranium, just 10 days after police announced arrests in a similar case, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported.
One of Kosovo’s ruling party lawmakers, Azem Syla, has returned to the country for questioning after being accused by authorities of running an organized crime ring.
Agriculture official Yanaki Chevenyakov was dismissed from his post as head of contracting for the Bulgarian State Fund for Agriculture (SFA) after an investigation by Bivol (an OCCRP partner) exposed his lavish lifestyle.
Counterfeit Euro notes seized during the crackdown on an illegal workshop in Northern Bulgaria are of extremely high quality, according to Bulgarian prosecutors and experts from Europe's joint police force (Europol).
Kosovo prosecutors initiated a crackdown on an organized crime gang, allegedly run by ruling party lawmaker Azem Syla, that they say deprived the state of public property worth about 30 million Euros (US$ 34 million).
In what will be likely the largest release in history of secret offshore companies and the people connected to them, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is planning to release more information as part of the Panama Papers investigation, according to the ICIJ website.
By Cecilia Ferrara (IRPI)
The Italian mob is getting into historic renovation, according to prosecutors.
Early Tuesday morning, nine people were arrested by the Investigative Unit of the Carabinieri and the Finance Police for corruption, bid rigging, illicit behavior as a public servant and association with the Camorra.