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

Anniversaries ending with zeroes tend to prompt a good deal of news coverage, as illustrated by the 20th anniversary of the...

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

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

The production and use of synthetic drugs – ecstasy, amphetamines and methamphetamines – is feared to be increasing in the...

US President Barack Obama has pledged to crack down on tax havens, following up on the Group of 20 meeting last month that...

If it wasn’t bad enough that the worldwide monetary melee has revealed malfeasance like giant Ponzi schemes, creative...

Drug violence in Mexico, trafficking in other Latin American countries and opium production in Afghanistan are all threats...

The UN Security Council voted at a meeting Wednesday to accept Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's report on EULEX deployment in...

Kosovo has been faulted by the European Commission for failing to address the country's ongoing problems with organized...

Less than a week after Croatia's prime minister responded to the murder of the daughter of a prominent Zagreb attorney by...

Israel’s dozen major crime families have become more brazen in recent years as they fight over the usual industries – drugs,...