Serbian authorities arrested 12 people and seized 1,338 tons of dried tobacco from a warehouse in Ljubovija, western Serbia, on Thursday Jan. 9. The haul was reportedly worth 295 million Serbian dinar (US$ 2.9 million) and, if sold, would have defrauded the Serbian taxpayer of 139 million dinars (US$ 1.3 million) in unpaid tax and duties.
Four former executives of a Norwegian chemical fertilizer company are on trial in Oslo, accused of making corrupt payments in Libya and India.
A Russian national who owns a US-based consultancy has been indicted for paying US$3.5 million in bribes to gain funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD) for his Russian and UK clients.
Russian dissident and anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny defied house arrest on Tuesday by leaving his home to buy milk.
Novelist Khaled Hosseini has added his voice to the campaign for the release of Khadija Ismayilova, the award-winning investigative journaist imprisoned in Azerbaijan on bogus charges.
After a ship packed with 360 Syrian migrants was rescued en route from Turkey to Italy, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has denounced current European Union anti-trafficking operations as insufficient.
A special parliamentary commission voted in Turkey today, Jan. 5,not to pursue prosecutions against four former ministers of President Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over allegations of major corruption that surfaced ina graft investigation in 2013.
A large block of European Parliamentarians are demanding the release of an Azerbaijani investigative reporter who was jailed earlier this month. In a strong show of support for journalist Khadija Ismayilova who was jailed on what many believe are political charges, 40 members signed letters to Azebaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Minister of Justice Fikrat Mammadov. The letters were sent out by EP member Monica Macovei of Romania last week.
Nana Biganishvili, a reporter for OCCRP partner Studio Monitori in the Republic of Georgia, has won a European Union (EU) Prize for Journalism for her report on citizens’ efforts to block development in Tbilisi’s Vake Park.
Two Romanians and a former Italian member of Parliament living in Greece have been arrested on charges that they conspired to sell machine guns and anti-aircraft weapons to Colombian rebels for use against American law enforcement agents battling the drug trade.