The Macedonian Special Prosecutor’s office has denied allegations that its prosecutors have abused the office by pressuring witnesses in ongoing investigations involving alleged government malfeasance.

Dutch Member of Parliament Pieter Omtzigt questions whether Cyprus is paying “lip service” to international money laundering regulations after its failure to go after banks involved in money laundering in the scandalous and tragic Sergei Magnitsky case, reported the EU Observer.

Bosnian prosecutors today filed an indictment accusing former media mogul Fahrudin Radoncic and three of his alleged accomplices of pressuring a witness into providing false testimony and trading in influence.

Aivaras Abromavicius, Ukraine’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade, has resigned, saying that “neither me, nor my team, have any desire to serve as a cover-up for covert corruption,” according to a statement  by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

Viktor Uspaskich, a member of the European Parliament and a former multi-millionaire, was sentenced to four years in prison for fraud in 2013. This week three judges overturned that conviction on appeal.

Italian authorities have seized assets worth € 28 million (more than US$ 30 million) from a businessman investigators say may have links with a huge organized crime network. A yacht which used to belong to Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is among the seized assets.

The Prague Municipal Court has sentenced Marek Dalik, a lobbyist and an ex-aide to former Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, to five years in prison and a 5 million crown fine (US$ 204,829) for corruption, reported Reuters.

In a Jan. 28 letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, US Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) said that the continued detention of OCCRP reporter Khadija Ismayilova and other journalists would “harm relations between our two countries,” according to Radio Free Europe.

Ukraine's new National Anti-Corruption Bureau has convinced a Kyiv court to seize the property of a Luhansk Oblast judge suspected of taking bribes.

A mysterious company called EnergoKapital, based in Transnistria, stands between Moldova’s state-run power company Energocom and the Cuciurgan thermoelectric power station which provides up to 80 percent of the country’s electricity, according to EurasiaNet.