A gun trafficking organization was dismantled and seven of its members arrested on Wednesday in San Juan, in an operation by the Puerto Rican Special Investigations and Negotiation Investigative Agency (NIA).

On Wednesday Sreten Jocić, one of Serbia’s most vicious and feared mobsters, was acquitted of the murder of Ivo Pukanić, a Croatian newspaper editor who covered Balkan organized crime. Two others were convicted.

Croatia’s agency to fight corruption and organized crime, USKOK, has charged Zsolt Hernádi, the chief executive of the Hungarian oil company MOL, with bribery.

On Sunday, Italian authorities seized US $820 million worth of assets belonging to Vincenzo Rappa, a deceased Sicilian businessman.

Ehud Olmert, 68, who preceded Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s head of state, was convicted on Monday for taking US$ 150,000 in bribes and for lying in court.

Authorities in Mexico have arrested an alleged member of an Eastern European mafia organization who led a drug trafficking network with links to Asia and Europe, raising questions as to what he was doing in the country and whether he was acting as a broker for international criminal groups.

A US former executive is suing Dutch hedge fund Palladyne International Asset Management and London-based recruitment agency SThree Plc. for laundering money for the Gaddafi regime.

The Vatican has accepted the resignation of a German bishop over his extravagant spending, which includes a US $43 million remodel of his residence and offices in Limburg.

Fatmir Limaj, Kosovo’s former transport minister, says he is not involved in corruption or  organized crime despite a second round of indictments last month. Limaj has said the charges are based on “prejudice, absurd things and speculation.”

The director of Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has urged legislators to expand police powers as a way to combat online money laundering.