Romania’s National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) seized € 2 million (US$ 2.7 million) worth of property owned by InterAgro, a fertilizer and agricultural conglomerate controlled by billionaire Ioan Niculae, reported Romania Insider.
Montenegrin authorities today arrested the former president of Serbia and Montenegro, who they suspect was involved in large-scale corruption cases in his hometown of Budva.
A US federal court sentenced Vadim Mikerin to 48 months in prison this week for facilitating a US$ 2.1 million bribery scheme as the middleman between American companies and Russian nuclear officials exporting uranium to the US, reported Reuters.
Olga Lopatina, ex-wife of Chaika’s Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin, has filed a lawsuit against Alexei Navalny in the wake of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) investigation into alleged corrupt business deals of Russia’s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika earlier this month.
Romanian investigators Monday questioned Ioana Valmar, the former wife of parliament speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu, regarding her alleged involvement in a high-profile real estate restitution scam which resulted in the arrest of Prince Paul of Romania last week.
Europol spearheaded a two-week joint operation with law enforcement agencies across France, Norway and Romania in a major bust of remote-access Trojan (RATs) cyber criminals, according to a Europol press release.
The Presnensky District Court of Moscow dismissed opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s suit against Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika reported Sputnik. A spokesperson of the court told RIA Novosti that the petition was returned to the applicant because it was outside the court’s jurisdiction, however, the dismissal of the case may be politically motivated.
A Court in Belgrade sentenced the several members of a criminal organization which trafficked millions of dollars worth of cocaine from South America to Europe from 2008 and 2009 to lengthy prison terms today.
A Sacramento federal court charged Dumitru Martin, a Romanian investor, with bribing a United States Air Force major in order to win a US $10.4 million military contract according to the The Sacramento Bee newspaper.
Two men were shot in the legs in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Monday when police say a security guard opened fire near a busy thoroughfare. The two victims were treated at a hospital and are expected to survive.