For more than a decade, HS Timber Group required its Romanian timber suppliers to deliver extra wood for free without recording it, netting the Austrian company an estimated $34 million of unofficial timber.

Transparency International’s Government Defence Integrity Index found that half of all countries in the Central and Eastern European region (CEE) face high risks of corruption in their defense and security sectors, the non-profit group revealed in an updated index released Wednesday.

The luxury lifestyle of Balkan drug traffickers was cut short on Thursday when police arrested 16 members accused of smuggling cocaine via private planes from South America to Europe and beyond.

As the internet becomes more central to our lives, the question grows more urgent: who owns it? OCCRP, in partnership with RISE Project and EurActiv.ro, set out to find out in the Internet Ownership Project.