The Chisinau Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal by lawyers to free former Prime Minister Vlad Filat, instead extending his detention for another 90 days, according to Radio Free Europe.

Former Media mogul Fahrudin Radoncic, the leader of one of the parties in the ruling coalition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says he will testify at the trial of suspected drug kingpin Naser Kelmendi in Pristina, Kosovo.

Irina Bokova, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), owns property in Manhattan worth more than US$ 3 million, reported the Bulgarian website and OCCRP partner Bivol.

Ten marijuana farmers who shot at police attempting to regain control over an outlaw region of Albania in 2014 were jailed by a Tirana court Monday, according to Reuters.

The Serbian government has asked the Belgrade airport to forgive local carrier Air Serbia a debt of more than US$ 22 million, according to the Serbian Crime and Corruption Reporting Netork (KRIK). The debt constitutes all payments owed by the carrier to the airport for a one year period meaning the airline essentially used the airport for free for one year.

A man from Kansas and a woman from Texas have been arrested by the FBI in connection with a multimillion dollar fraud targeting a Turkish businessman, according to a news release by the U.S Attorney’s Office in Kansas City, Kansas.   

Princess Cristina was charged on Monday by a Mallorcan court with two counts of tax fraud- the first member of Spain’s royal family to be put on trial, according to the Associated Press.  

In an outrageous story of alleged theft, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested National Prison Service Acting Deputy Chief Alexander Protopopov and his accomplices this week for (literal) highway robbery, reported Kommersant.

At the behest of France, the International Criminal Police Organization Interpol is seeking Papa Massata Diack, the son of Lamine Diack, the former president of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF). French law enforcement said they are looking for him for "complicity in receivig bribes, aggravated money laundering and conspiracy in an organized group to invest, conceal or convert the proceeds of active corruption".

Police are investigating possible financial motives in the shooting death of Bulgarian businessman and alleged former mobster Vesselin “Fat Vesko” Stoimenov, who was killed in a Sofia suburb in the evening of Jan. 7 by unknown assailants.