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

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

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

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

Some countries in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union saw their scores on a prominent corruption survey improve from...

Countries party to a global anti-corruption treaty will now be monitored every five years to see how they’re living up to...

The government of Bulgaria has proposed a new law on the seizure of illegally obtained assets, part of an attempt to respond...

Anniversaries ending with zeroes tend to prompt a good deal of news coverage, as illustrated by the 20th anniversary of the...

And I thought that Morava was just a brand of cheap, awful cigarettes. Morava was also the code name Serbian police used for...

The “Brainy Don,” Semion Mogilevich, known up to now as merely a shadowy controller of Eastern European gas pipelines, a...

Fortress Europe may not be such a fortress after all. According to an annual crime report from Europol, countries outside...

Reporters Without Borders has released its eighth annual Press Freedom Index for 2009, with four Scandanavian countries and...