On April 11, military police from Apulia, Italy arrested 13 people for illegally dumping 12,000 tons of industrial waste. One suspect escaped arrest. 

On Wednesday, Belgrade courts acquitted popular Serbian turbo folk singer Svetlana “Ceca” Ražnatović and her sister’s husband, Predrag Ocokoljić, on charges that they threatened Aleksandar Olarević, the head of the Mladi Proleter football club, in 2007.

The US Attorney in Chicago said Thursday that Jesus Vicente “El Vicentillo” Zambada Niebla, a top member of the Sinaloa cartel, has been cooperating with authorities since he pled guilty to drug trafficking last year.

On April 8, Slobodan Šaranović and his associate Ratko Koljenšić were arrested for murder for the second time in nine months.

Hewlett-Packard (H-P), the American multinational information technology corporation, has agreed to pay US$ 108 million to resolve a government investigation into possible bribery in some of its foreign units.

On April 4, Italian police arrested 26 suspects for being involved in a Mafia-style sex trafficking ring in Italy led by Romanian nationals.

Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is investigating allegations that some of its employees bribed medical professionals in Iraq.

A judge granted a 40-day hold against Jesús Reyna García –former interim governor and current Secretary of Government of the state of Michoacán –for his suspected associations with organized crime groups.

In an effort to improve its public image and flagging membership, the largest organized crime syndicate in Japan, the Yakuza’s Yamaguchi-gumi group, has launched its own website.

The country’s anti-corruption agency says local judges and prosecutors could be tougher on corruption and could indict more people if they weren’t such chickens.