The Chisinau Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal by lawyers to free former Prime Minister Vlad Filat, instead extending his detention for another 90 days, according to Radio Free Europe.

A man from Kansas and a woman from Texas have been arrested by the FBI in connection with a multimillion dollar fraud targeting a Turkish businessman, according to a news release by the U.S Attorney’s Office in Kansas City, Kansas.   

Princess Cristina was charged on Monday by a Mallorcan court with two counts of tax fraud- the first member of Spain’s royal family to be put on trial, according to the Associated Press.  

Enver Hasani, the former president of the Kosovo Constitutional Court, has been indicted for fraud, according to a Wednesday news release from the Special Prosecutors Office.

Last month, Italian State Forestry police and the District Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA) of Bari, Italy seized 7,000 tons of counterfeit olive oil. Branded as ‘100% Italian’ extra virgin, the oil was in fact lower quality oil blended from Syria, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, according to The Olive Oil Times.

A US federal court sentenced Vadim Mikerin to 48 months in prison this week for facilitating a US$ 2.1 million bribery scheme as the middleman between American companies and Russian nuclear officials exporting uranium to the US, reported Reuters.

A new report published by Washington, DC-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a research and advisory nonprofit, declared that “illicit financial flows” such as money laundering, theft, fraud or embezzlement, have hit a record US $1.1 trillion in 2013.

The former deputy speaker of Bulgaria’s Parliament, Hristo Bisserov, has been found innocent of charges including tax evasion, breaking the law on foreign currency transactions, and submitting incorrect information to the National Audit Office.

Six years after the death of corruption whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky in a Russian prison, Russia has relaunched its investigation into the dead man, reports BuzzFeed News.

A Dutch former gambling executive working on the island of Malta pleaded innocent to seven charges including money laundering and fraud in connection with a plot to scam his employer.

A group of 160 Russian cybercriminals netted over US$ 790 million worldwide between 2012 and 2015, according to a new report by Ruslan Stoyanov, head of investigations into computer incidents at Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm.

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has been honored in the very first Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Awards for “outstanding investigative journalism”.

Russia's "shadow banker" Alexander Grigoriev has been arrested while dining with his girlfriend in the glamourous restaurant he part-owns in Moscow.

On Friday, Oct. 30, agents from Russia’s domestic intelligence body the FSB, along with anti-corruption officers and special forces, raided Sfera restaurant and clapped the 48-year-old in handcuffs as he lay on the ground, reports national newspaper Kommersant.

Chaos reigned this week in the aftermath of two key polls in Bulgaria in which senior politicians alleged widespread foul play and vote-counters complained of being held hostage for up to 48 hours.

Moldovan Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet’s government was dismissed today, Oct. 29, after just three months in power.

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko's political party and the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc have accused each other of electoral fraud after Sunday's local elections were postponed in some areas of the country.

Three subcontractors for a St Petersburg-based company that took 600 million rubles (US$ 9.5 million) in arms contracts were found to have neither offices nor production facilities, according to an audit by Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor's Office and reported in the Novaya Gazeta.

A company director has been sentenced to four years in prison for fraudulently obtaining a loan of € 1.7 million (US$ 1.9 million) from the Banca de Economii (BEM) – one of the financial institutions at the heart of Moldova's "missing billion" scandal.

Peaceful anti-government protests, which have blocked a main street of the capital Podgorica for more than a week, are now spreading to other areas of Montenegro.

Italian authorities have arrested 24 people they suspect of involvement in a cloned credit card scam that allegedly netted about € 3 million (US$ 3.36 million).