Report: Corruption Choking 5 Eastern European Countries
A new report by corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) warns that corruption threatens economic and democratic development in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
A new report by corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) warns that corruption threatens economic and democratic development in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Ukrainian news channel “24” reported that Anton Chernushenko, the chairman of the Kyiv Court of Appeal, skipped work the day after the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) authorized his arrest on corruption charges. The channel reported his wife said her husband is “on vacation.”
A court in Italy has sentenced the human trafficker who helped cause the catastrophic 2013 shipwreck near Lampedusa in which 366 migrants lost their lives.
A senior official in the gas-rich island of Sakhalin, in far-eastern Russia, has resigned after being accused of corruption.
Spanish authorities have seized nearly 16 tons of cannabis resin from a vessel, arresting all nine crew members.
Russian authorities are investigating the head of the Crimean department of tax, Nikolai Kochanov, over allegations of bribery.
Albanian authorities have made eight fresh arrests in their ongoing struggle to control a marijuana-growing enclave in the south of the country.
The wife of a major organized crime figure said at a press conference today that her husband was involved in the murder of Bosnian crime boss Ramiz “Celo” Delalic.
The trial of a wealthy Serbian businessman with alleged criminal links was postponed on Tuesday for the third time after one of the defendants failed to appear in court, pleading sudden illness.
Just two days after the European Games closed in Azerbaijan, four journalists say they were barred from leaving the country and told they were placed on a government “blacklist.”