The Spanish National Court has acquitted 17 people accused of laundering money for the Russian mafia in Spain. Among the acquitted are the tax advisors, accountants and secretaries of Gennadios... read more →
A "very prominent" Ukrainian man was arrested earlier this month in a 12th century chateau near Dijon, where he had been living “a very lavish lifestyle” since fleeing Ukraine where... read more →
Zamira Hajiyeva is the wife of a former Azerbaijan banker who, in 2016, was convicted of fraud and corruption. He was chairman of the Azerbaijan International Bank, a state-owned banking... read more →
The French police on Saturday carried out a large operation near Paris, during which 23 Chechen nationals were detained as part of a probe into suspected racketeering. According to French... read more →
An Azerbaijani woman who has spent the equivalent of US $21 million at the Harrods department store in London over the last 10 years will have to reveal the source... read more →
The Skopje Court of Appeal has confirmed the two-year prison sentence handed down to former Macedonian premier Nikola Gruevski for corruption, upholding the original ruling issued in May. The ex-prime... read more →
Polish President Andrzej Duda has appointed 27 judges to the Supreme Court of Justice on Wednesday despite objections from the Administrative court, which had ruled that appointments would have to... read more →
Victoria Marinova, a 30-year-old Bulgarian journalist, was murdered "in a particularly violent manner" in the northern Bulgarian city of Ruse on Saturday, making her the third journalist to be killed... read more →
Elena Udrea, the former Romanian minister of tourism, and Alina Bica, former chief prosecutor of the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), were arrested in Costa Rica,... read more →
The European Parliament has called on the authorities in Minsk to put an end to intimidation and threats against journalists. “Against the background of the worsening media freedom situation in... read more →
