Serbia’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime is seeking the temporary seizure of property within the country belonging to alleged tobacco smuggler Stanko Subotic, according to the Serbian daily Press.
Italy’s highest court this week struck down a law that had rendered scandal-prone Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi untouchable in the courts while he served in office.
The Croatian weekly Nacional has published testimony from the state’s key witness in the murder case of Ivo Pukanic and his marketing manager, Niko Franjic.
The UK’s top body for fraud will pursue corruption charges against the country’s top defense company over alleged bribery to smooth arms deals in Eastern Europe and Africa, the agency announced Oct. 1.
More than $100 million in property owned by a Bulgarian energy tycoon will be confiscated by the state’s asset forfeiture program, pending the outcome of his trial for tax fraud.
Dodgy privatizations in the Balkans and officials extorting money from companies in Russia were just some of the findings of a recent report on private-sector corruption from a prominent anti-corruption watchdog and advocacy group.
Italian crime groups befouling the environment is nothing new in Italy. Garbage has piled up on the streets of Naples off and on for much of this decade because of organized crime’s stranglehold over waste disposal in southern Italy.
The European Union (EU) will unfreeze around $160 million in farm aid to Bulgaria, after deciding Sept. 7 that Bulgaria had toughened its controls to prevent further malfeasance with aid money from the 27-nation bloc.
Eastern European cyber-mobs are bilking small and medium-sized companies in the US out of millions of dollars, according to an alert sent by a prominent financial advisory group last week.
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska will face a London civil trial over a disputed stake in his company United Company RusAl, after losing his bid last month to block former business partner Michael Cherney’s move to hold the trial in the UK.
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