Italian police have cracked open a Camorra-type crime gang based in Rome, arresting 61 suspects linked to the group.

The director of a human rights watchdog who went missing in August 2014 has been hiding at the Swiss Embassy in Baku, it emerged today.

A proposed law to criminalize the possession of “unexplainable wealth” by officials has bogged down in Russia because a group that was supposed to vote on passing it on to Parliament failed to do so.

Two pre-dawn bomb blasts struck the Albanian capital Tirana on Tuesday, destroying a pharmacy belonging to the father of the Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri in what the prime minister called a terrorist attack targeted at a new anti-crime campaign.

More than 20,000 Macedonians have been illegally wire-tapped in an operation ordered by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, the country's main opposition leader has claimed.

A federal judge in Mexico has thrown out the prison sentence of a Mexican drug smuggler known as the "Queen of the Pacific" and ordered her released.

An enormous cache of 60,000 leaked files from British bank HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm has revealed that the bank helped clients, including international criminals, to hide millions of dollars from tax authorities.

Moldovan law enforcement arrested five alleged drug traffickers and seized 100 kilograms of hashish en route to Chisinau, authorities reported Friday.

An escalating war of words over the actions of non-governmental organizations in Georgia has turned towards the courts, as the executive director of Transparency International (TI) Georgia announced that she plans to sue for defamation.

New measures to curb the illicit trade in wildlife have been adopted by the European Parliament (EP), coming into force Thursday.