Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting

Russia is often criticized as a major source of international money laundering but its Central Bank’s official figures...

Latvia’s financial regulator has fined the Baltic International Bank (BIB) € 1.1 million (US$ 1.2 million) due to repeated...

The Latvian Financial and Capital Market Commission (FKTK) said Thursday that the European Central Bank (ECB) has revoked...

The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office has a special unit of investigators set up to pressure and blackmail top politicians and...

The retail giant IKEA is one of the world’s largest furniture makers, using one percent of the global wood supply each year...

In the late summer of 2002, Montenegrin criminal Veselin Božović looked like a lucky man. The mobster from Bijelo Polje had...

Russian-Norwegian telecom operator paid possibly as much as US$ 183.5 million in bribes and other payments to Gulnara...

By Ola Westerberg, TT News Agency, Sweden Duvet covers and pillow shams sold by IKEA are produced in Turkmenistan, a...

Let’s raise a glass of – what, exactly? Commercial beer in Romania and other developing countries is increasingly produced...

The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has nominated Irina Bokova, currently Director-General of the United Nations...

Transparency International (TI) says it will impose social sanctions on the world’s nine most symbolic cases of grand...

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned Ukraine’s government to “act now” to...