Reuters

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

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

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

Italian crime groups befouling the environment is nothing new in Italy. Garbage has piled up on the streets of...

A face-off that had pitted Swiss banking secrecy laws against the US government’s desire to tax the income hidden...

A Moscow court has released a man suspected of being an organized crime boss and who is wanted in the United...

Jurors in the case involving the murder of outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya balked at entering a...

Croatian police have arrested eleven suspects and charged five with the October 23 murders of Ivo Pukanić and Niko...

UK business secretary Peter Mandelson has rebuffed calls to discuss the full extent of his relationship with...