The criminals, led by a well-known Spanish thug nicknamed “Juan the Kid” due to his short stature, gathered in a seedy motel south of Paris. There, acting on shadowy orders... read more →
A Dutch-Moroccan drug trafficker suspected of ordering the murders of several people has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates. Ridouan Taghi, often described as the Netherlands' most wanted criminal,... read more →
Fifteen members of a Russian speaking gang were arrested last week in France and Belgium on charges of "organized smuggling" and "criminal conspiracy" as part of an investigation into the... read more →
As of 1 January 2019 gambling will be banned in Albania as part of a crackdown on on organised crime and money laundering. The law, which was passed by the... read more →
The chairman of Chelsea football club, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, withdrew an application for a residence permit in Switzerland, after the federal police decided that his long-term presence could be... read more →
Slovenian police arrested two people and carried out house searches on Thursday as part of an investigation into an armed vigilante group that has made headlines in the small Adriatic... read more →
The assassination of Oliver Ivanović, the leader of the Serbs of Kosovo, last week marked a major step backwards in the painfully slow road towards stability in the Balkans. Critically,... read more →
Much of the debate surrounding how open Europe should be to migrants circles around fears that an influx of asylum seekers will mean a rise in crime. That assumption seemed... read more →
The European Commission has singled out Moldova and Ukraine as needing to do more to tackle crime and corruption if they want to continue to benefit from visa-free access to... read more →
Albania is both a country of origin and a transit country for the trafficking of men, women, and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour. Women who... read more →
