Georgian investigative team (and OCCRP partners) Studio Monitori  has won two awards in a national contest conducted by Transparency International-Georgia.

Police raided several cities and busted a transnational cigarette-smuggling ring operated by Kosovars, Albanians, Macedonians, and Bulgarians Monday.

Former Yukoz sharehold Leonid Nevzlin was found guilty of missappropriation and sentenced to six years for stealing shares from the Eastern Oil Company.

French police are investigating whether a €285 million financial award granted to business tycoon Bernard Tapie to settle a commercial dispute with the state stemmed from political influence.

Federal prosecutors have charged former Tabasco State Gov. Andres Granier with money laundering and embezzling millions from state coffers.

An Italian court has sentenced former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to seven years in prison and banned him from public office for life after finding him guilty of paying for sex with a minor and abusing his authority to mask the crime.

An opposition activist was shot dead near a polling station in the northern town of Lac, Albania, about 60 kilometers north of the capital, Tiranë.

Thirteen poachers of the greater one-horned rhino have been convicted in Nepal, according to government officials.

Two brothers who served as Border Patrol agents at the US-Mexico border were scheduled to be sentenced Friday for smuggling hundreds of immigrants into the United States.

Angola named one of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s sons chairman of the country’s $5 billion sovereign wealth fund, adding to a record of corruption, nepotism and a lack of transparency that had dogged the African country and its longtime leader.