Pink Panthers

In a Europol-coordinated operation across three Balkan countries, police arrested 11 suspects, including a leader of the...

A wise thief can hear profit in the wind, or so the saying goes, but he cannot hear the silent alarm, nor the two policemen...

Spanish police on the Canary Islands arrested four suspected members of Montenegro’s notorious Škaljari clan, known as a...

Montenegrin journalist Jovo Martinovic pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of working with a drug trafficking ring, in...

Spanish police arrested Friday five men suspected of being members of the infamous Pink Panthers gang, after a lightning...

The International Police Organization (Interpol) has held a two-day meeting attended by investigators from 22 countries to...

Dusko Martinovic, a Montenegrin member of the international “Pink Panther” gang of jeweler thieves, was extradited from...

A former basketball player who played for the Yugoslav national team and for Red Star Belgrade has been arrested in Athens...

Better late than never: A Thai court ruled last week that Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout could be extradited to the US,...

Police arrested 15 suspected members of a cocaine smuggling gang in Slovenia last week, and found untold quantities and...

Italian police last week picked up a 39-year-old Montenegrin whom Interpol described as a “key member” of the Pink Panthers...

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