Officers have swooped on eight alleged organized crime gangsters as part of a large narcotics bust involving cross-border police cooperation and multiple raids.

Bosnian prosecutors are investigating the theft of US$ 380,000 from the Bosnian Central Bank (CBBH). Police say that employee Nedzad Bajraktarevic has been arrested, and nine more employees suspended.

The Russian government has been forced to consider a public proposal to criminalize possession by officials of unexplainable assets, after a petition reached the 100,000 signatures required to be legally compelling.

A courtin Armenia has ordered therelease of official documents to investigative journalists about the import and export of rare animals from the country in a victory for Armenia's freedom of information lobbyists.

Meydan TV, one of the few remaining independent media outlets with an office in Azerbaijan, terminated its operations in Baku today following the imprisonment of an award-winning Azerbaijani journalist.

A crowd of around 60 human rights activists and journalists demonstrated Wednesday afternoon outside the Azerbaijan Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, calling on the Azerbaijani government to release journalist and longtime OCCRP partner Khadija Ismayilova.

Thirteen Armenian officials, including the former head of the State Social Security Service (SSSS), have been convicted of embezzling from uncollected pension funds. 

UNODC has released its Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2014 Lao PDR - Myanmar, showing that opium cultivation had risen more than four percent in one year.

International protests are set this week over the arrest of award-winning investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova amid widespread fears that her two-month detention marks the crossing of a “red line” in human rights abuses in Azerbaijan.

Protests against the detention of Ismayilova, who wrote anti-corruption investigations for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, have been planned in Georgia and Romania; one was held in Moldova on Saturday and one in the US on Monday.

Customs officers at the Presevo border crossing between southern Serbia and Macedonia have seized nearly a ton of cannabis in the biggest drugs bust at the customs post to date.