Europe

Russia’s trash reforms were meant to close old landfills and introduce new waste management technologies across the country....

A chessmaster who sent money to the mob, a mysterious change of ownership just after a dramatic police raid, and connections...

A landmark labor exploitation case against Azerbaijan should soon be decided by the European Court of Human Rights — more...

Once a powerful interior ministry official, Alovsat Aliyev became a workers’ rights activist in his native Azerbaijan. As...

Most investigations of transnational criminal networks follow a known group or commodity such as the Italian Camorra,...

A new leak of bank documents shows millions flowed through a former Armenian customs official’s offshore account in the Isle...

The criminal group stole card numbers and copied them onto new blank cards, which were given to gang members to withdraw...

Starting in the early 2000s, a Romanian man built an international people-smuggling network that laid the groundwork for a...

A Romanian gang rigged ATMs to skim $1 billion, and funneled the cash into real estate in at least four countries.

Constantin Sorinel Marcu was in a tough spot. He had stabbed a man in the neck after a fight at a swimming pool, and he...

A Romanian-led organized crime group scammed an estimated $1.2 billion using a network of rigged ATMs in some of Mexico’s...

How the Riviera Maya gang used media campaigns and ties to people in power to protect themselves.