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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...

International arms dealer Viktor Bout, who’s been in a Thai jail since a US-led sting operation two years ago,...

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...

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

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...

Interpol has promised to share its databases and other information with UN police peacekeepers in an agreement...

Yaponchik (“the little Japanese”), a Russian gangster,  reportedly died Friday, months after a sniper shot him...

The production and use of synthetic drugs – ecstasy, amphetamines and methamphetamines – is feared to be...

US President Barack Obama has pledged to crack down on tax havens, following up on the Group of 20 meeting last...