A newspaper in Colombia has reported a drugs-for-guns arrangement involving the country's two main guerrilla organizations and the Russian Mafia, in a case which highlights both the close relationship between the rebels and increasing influence of European organized crime.

Iliana Yotova, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), has been linked to a public relations company which provided her with personal publicity and positive campaigning on social media while at the same time criticizing European Union Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva.

The largest private owner of timberland in Romania, Scolopax SRL, has begun to sell off all of its Romanian forest assets. Two weeks ago, Dragoș Lipan Secu, a representative of Scolopax, was arrested on charges on bribery and money laundering.

Italian police and the FBI have arrested 17 people in Italy and seven in the United States during an operation that authorities say dismantled a drug-trafficking group. The operation, dubbed New Bridge, involved collaboration between the Italian crime syndicate ‘Ndrangheta and the New York- based Gambino family of the Mafia.

A judge questioned Spain’s Princess Cristina on Saturday in a fraud and money laundering investigation that will determine whether the princess and her husband illegally used funds from a company they owned for personal expenses.

On Sunday, Mexican authorities arrested Tirso Martinez Sanchez, an accused drug lord wanted by the US State Department, reports Reuters.

Students from Kosovo’s top university say they will continue to protest over fraud involving advanced degrees even though the University of Pristina’s rector resigned after violent clashes on Friday in which 30 were arrested.

Protestors in Bosnia set fire to government buildings and clashed with riot police on Friday in what Reuters has called the “worst civil unrest in the country” since the 1992-1995 war.

Criminals who buy and sell drugs and human beings are getting better at cooperating with each other across regional borders, says a top Albanian official—so area governments had better do likewise.

It has been a decade since the European Union (EU) reviewed its rules for fighting money laundering. A vote on potential changes is coming up next week, on Feb. 13, and an American anti-crime group is urging the EU to crack down once and for all on offshore registries.