Romanian authorities have raided 59 houses in a large-scale swoop on a group of pharmacists, doctors and health officials they suspect made up to US$ 2.2 million from the national health insurance fund by arranging and processing fake prescriptions.

A Russian whistleblower who died unexpectedly while jogging may have been poisoned by Russian spies with a rare toxin from the gelsemium elegans plant, a pre-inquest hearing was told on Monday.

Following international outcry over the arrests of two journalists in Azerbaijan last week, President Aliyev's advisor Ali Hasanov claimed that the journalists were arrested due to lack of accreditation.

The governor of Russia’s northern Komi region has been charged in Moscow with fraud in a major swoop in which 18 other officials and businessmen are also under suspicion.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta is facing trial for graft, according to Romania’s Anti-Corruption Agency (DNA).

Nearly all the cannabis plants being grown in Albania have now been destroyed, officials said Wednesday.

TeliaSonera, the Swedish telecoms giant which has been linked by investigations to alleged multi-million dollar corruption in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, has announced that it is leaving the Eurasian market.

Ukraine’s Minister for Social Policy Pavlo Rozenko has sacked all of the regional heads of the State Employment Service.

Macedonia's Parliament has named a special prosecutor whose task it will be to investigate claims by the opposition that the government has illegally wiretapped 20,000 of its own citizens.

Opposition parties in Russia have been left crying foul after regional polls on Sunday as independent election watchdogs recorded several instances of electoral fraud.