The leader of Moldova’s pro-Kremlin party “Our Party”, former businessman Renato Usatîi, was released from custody Sunday.

Several high-profile hearings coincided with a visit to Bulgaria by the director general of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), Giovanni Kessler, who criticized the country yet again for not taking enough concrete actions to tackle corruption.

Three subcontractors for a St Petersburg-based company that took 600 million rubles (US$ 9.5 million) in arms contracts were found to have neither offices nor production facilities, according to an audit by Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor's Office and reported in the Novaya Gazeta.

Romanian authorities detained two people on Monday for drug trafficking. 

During the final statements in the case against suspected Islamic State (IS) recruiter Husein Bosnic in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the state prosecutor requested the maximum, 20-year prison sentence be imposed.

Time may be running out for Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic integration dreams.

Zsolt Hernádi, chairman-CEO of Hungarian oil and gas group MOL, could still face trial for bribery in Croatia according to Hungarian investigative site Atlatszo, an OCCRP partner.

A company director has been sentenced to four years in prison for fraudulently obtaining a loan of € 1.7 million (US$ 1.9 million) from the Banca de Economii (BEM) – one of the financial institutions at the heart of Moldova's "missing billion" scandal.

The mayor of Belgrade has refused to comment on reports that he is the director of two offshore companies that own 19 apartments in Bulgaria worth an estimated total of US$ 6.1 million.

A Croatian Court has rejected an attempt to post bail by Ivo Sanader, the former Croatian Prime Minister who stands accused of siphoning off state-owned assets through a private marketing firm during his term in office, among other charges.