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The fallout from the Spanish-led arrests of nearly 70 Georgian mobsters last month has led the Spanish...

Greek police let suspected Georgian mob boss Lasha Sushanashvili slip away during the recent Europe-wide raids on...

Bulgaria’s organized-crime crackdown continued last week, with the authorities branching out from the kidnappers...

Four men pleaded not guilty to murdering a prominent Croatian magazine editor and a colleague at the start of...

Bulgaria’s top law enforcement authorities have pledged to eradicate organized crime, marking the first time the...

The recent election in Croatia of Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic as President by an overwhelming margin has been...

The UN has scaled back on its self-policing in the last year, dropping at least five major corruption and fraud...

By the time this is posted, the end-of-the-year top ten list mania, thankfully, will be over. Among the tedious...

Six years ago, the UN declared Dec. 9 an annual “International Anti-Corruption Day” as a way to hype its freshly...

Experts have called West Africa the drug war’s new front for the past few years. Latin American drug traffickers...

Cheap heroin and cocaine, flexible criminal networks and corrupt authorities are the lifeblood of Serbian...

My weekly crime-and-corruption notes here focus on the former Eastern Bloc, but that’s simply because the region...