By Bojana Pavlović, KRIK
Darko Šarić, convicted of organizing a criminal group that smuggled tons of cocaine from Latin America to western Europe, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison.

Romanian prosecutors this week seized assets worth € 2 billion (US$ 2.2 billion) from major Russian petroleum company Lukoil.

A bank in Crimea lost its banking licence today over repeated violations of an anti-money laundering law.

A Romanian criminal ringleader who defrauded thousands of bank customers in the United States (US) has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay US$ 7.4 million in restitution.

 A massive leak of the Italian cyber-surveillance firm Hacking Team's data has revealed that Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense has licensed the company's sophisticated Remote Control System (RCS) spyware, a charge the company had previously explicitly denied.

A new report places Azerbaijan in a four-way tie with Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as the most corrupt countries in Europe and Central Asia.

A documentary to air tonight on British TV will show leading London real estate agents offering to help to advise undercover reporters posing as corrupt Russian officials to invest their criminal gains into high-end property in London.

Spanish anti-organized crime prosecutors have arrested more than 30 people allegedly connected to a Georgian burglary gang in a major operation that involved hundreds of specialist police officers, including experts from German federal police.

Dinamo Zagreb football club bosses Zdravko Mamić and his brother, Zoran, have been jailed by a Zagreb court following corruption allegations, Balkan Insight reports.

Ninety percent of the amber being mined in Ukraine today is being extracted illegally with the connivance of police and prosecutors, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko charged on July 2.