The United Kingdom’s fraud authority will launch an investigation into the conduct of UK-based subsidiaries of French energy company Alstom over their business transactions in Hungary.

By Lorenzo Bodrero, of Investigative Reporting Project Italy, writing for OCCRP 

The Guardia di Finanza of Naples and the Carabinieri of Frosinone, Italy today issued 28 arrest warrants for members of an international drug-trafficking ring based in Italy and with ramifications in the Netherlands, Spain, Venezuela and Colombia.

Two former senior ministers in Romania have been jailed for treason and commercial espionage in a case involving the privatization of state assets.

An Azerbaijani court has extended the pre-trial detention of Khadija Ismayilova, the Radio Free Europe and OCCRP journalist.

A recording released by the British newspaper the Telegraph purports to reveal close ties between Russian president Vladimir Putin and crime boss Semion Mogilevich, who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.  

Bulgarian police believe that a Varna-based murder-for-hire gang was behind the recent murders of two high-profile businessmen.

By Una Hajdari, BIRN

The Basic Court in Pristina announced on Monday that media mogul Fahrudin Radoncic, head of the Union for a Better Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SBB, will testify at the trial of Kelmendi for organised crime, aggravated murder and the sale of drugs.

Bulgarian customs officials seized two million critically endangered  baby eels at Sofia Airport yesterday, and arrested two Chinese citizens.

OCCRP has launched its new website. Operating in HTML5, the site is primed to look just as beautiful and operate just as smoothly on mobile devices as it does on larger screens.

Journalists from OCCRP's partner RISE and the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper have uncovered another case of large-scale fraud regarding the acquiring and sale of Romanian forests, leading to several arrests and a criminal investigation of Romanian officials.