Interpol

By OCCRP Serbian businessman and fugitive Zoran Ćopić sat in a coffee shop in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka last week and...

A suspected longtime Serbian crime boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week after a court found him guilty of...

Police arrested 15 suspected members of a cocaine smuggling gang in Slovenia last week, and found untold quantities and...

Italian police last week picked up a 39-year-old Montenegrin whom Interpol described as a “key member” of the Pink Panthers...

Bulgaria’s organized-crime crackdown continued last week, with the authorities branching out from the kidnappers and drug...

The UN has scaled back on its self-policing in the last year, dropping at least five major corruption and fraud cases around...

Experts have called West Africa the drug war’s new front for the past few years. Latin American drug traffickers have...

My weekly crime-and-corruption notes here focus on the former Eastern Bloc, but that’s simply because the region is OCCRP’s...

Naser Kelmendi, whose alleged drug dealing has long made him a target of Balkan law enforcement agencies, is facing more...

Interpol has promised to share its databases and other information with UN police peacekeepers in an agreement intended to...

Serbia’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime is seeking the temporary seizure of property within the...

Yaponchik (“the little Japanese”), a Russian gangster,  reportedly died Friday, months after a sniper shot him several times...