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Kyrgyzstan’s interim government last week took a few corruption-related actions against two men connected to the previous...

Greek police let suspected Georgian mob boss Lasha Sushanashvili slip away during the recent Europe-wide raids on a Georgian...

Bulgaria’s organized-crime crackdown continued last week, with the authorities branching out from the kidnappers and drug...

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

The UN has scaled back on its self-policing in the last year, dropping at least five major corruption and fraud cases around...

By the time this is posted, the end-of-the-year top ten list mania, thankfully, will be over. Among the tedious roundups of...

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

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

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

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

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

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