The EU sanctioned Friday an additional 35 individuals and entities the union believes are linked to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose poisoning and incarceration at the hands of the Kremlin reinforced the narrative that President Vladimir Putin will not tolerate any challenge whatsoever to his rule.
In a bold legal move, Romanian businessman Jorgan Faff has sued Context.ro, the investigative news outlet and OCCRP member in Romania, claiming that a series of the outlet’s investigation articles regarding a stalled golf course project have damaged his reputation and his finances.
Supporters of opposition leader and Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, who was detained last week over allegations of corruption, said on Monday that the real reason for the apprehension was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fear of him as the only opponent who could defeat him in next month's elections.
Romanian and Spanish authorities have apprehended nine people suspected of the fake promotion of holiday rentals, swindling over a 1,000 unsuspecting victims and netting millions of euro in ill-gotten gains.
International media freedom watchdogs urged Serbian authorities to find and punish the perpetrators of attacks against journalists in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina where threats, physical assaults, online harassment, and verbal abuse have reached an unprecedented level.
Ukrainian authorities say they have dismantled a criminal group that people could hire to carry out revenge attacks or burn down homes of their client’s adversaries in exchange for US$500 to $3,000.
Italian authorities have announced the arrest of 31 suspected members of a group that utilized drones to deliver phones, weapons, or drugs to incarcerated mobsters, including those in maximum-security prisons. The group catered to 15 mafia-style organizations affiliated with or closely linked to the notorious Camorra.
Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina arrested six people suspected of trafficking counterfeit university diplomas in cooperation with an Italian professor from Sicily who appears to be the mastermind of the scheme.
Several individuals and companies under investigation for criminal activities have used the recently scrapped election funding system to pour hundreds of millions of dollars to political parties, in particular the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s Election Commission revealed.
U.K. parliamentarians as well as civil society activists have questioned the effectiveness of sanctions because of the government’s exemptions granted to sanctioned individuals - some associated with the Russian government - in order to pay for personal expenses some may call lavish.