Thessaly police cracked an international drug ring that imported drugs from Albania, Bulgaria, and Turkey.

Russian and China have been downgraded to the lowest possible score in the 2013 US Department of State Trafficking in persons report issued this week.

The trial of former chief executive of Italian defense contractor Finmeccanica began this week, with Giuseppe Orsi facing fraud and corruption charges over a deal to secure a helicopter contract in India.

Eighteen suspected members of a Georgian organized crime syndicate, including its top brass, were arrested on June 18 in coordinated raids across Europe

The leader of a drug smuggling gang that imported more than 52 tons of drugs into the UK has been jailed for 18 years.

Organized crime in Kosovo has expanded to include prostitution.

Mexican officials have arrested former University of Southern California professor Walter Lee Williams who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

Thirteen suspects from an international organized criminal group were arrested in Austria for the production and distribution of counterfeit Euro and Serbian dinar banknotes.

Costa Rican police have dismantled an international organ trafficking ring with ties to Eastern Europe that allegedly sold kidneys to patients in Israel.

Egyptian prosecutors seem to have given in to Islamist pressure for steeper fines and prison sentences for insulting religion.