In a sign of increased cross-border cooperation, reports of suspicious financial transactions in the European Union (EU) increased by 6.2 percent from 2006 to 2007. A further increase is expected for 2008 and this year, reported Europol, the European police coordinating body.
Montenegro Prime Minister Milo Đukanović's office says reporters who wrote about links between his personal wealth and official government acts were rude and did not give him a fair chance to respond to negative information. In fact, reporters tried for eight months to get his response.
Montenegro Prime Minister Milo Đukanovic has denounced as “science-fiction” reporting by an international group of investigative reporters that documented his prosecution in Italy for cigarette smuggling and the intermingling of his public life and his family’s business interests.
More than half of those questioned in a global public poll said that private sector corruption is a problem, according to the results of a new poll by Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI).
The European Commission unblocked €115 million in road aid for Bulgaria Tuesday that it had blocked last year over corruption in one of the European Union’s newest states.
US President Barack Obama has pledged to crack down on tax havens, following up on the Group of 20 meeting last month that was supposed to spell the beginning of the end for the method of evading taxes around the world.
Organized crime groups are increasingly stealing metals and easily re-sellable goods from road freight cargo within the 27-nation European Union (EU), according to a new report from the EU’s police coordination agency.
Organized crime threatens both the United States’ economy and the country’s national security, according to a new report from the public policy research group that serves the US Congress.
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